โ Scribed by King, Stephen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Hearts in Atlantis,
King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential
narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply
rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.
In
Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield
discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also
discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the
terror.
In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked
on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their
own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than
the thinly disguised cry of the beast.
In "Blind Willie" and "Why
We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban
Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an
America which sometimes seems as hollow - and as haunted - as their own
lives.
And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this
remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one
final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await
him.
series/sort : Collections - 1999
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