An edition of Hearts in Atlantis (1998)

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An edition of Hearts in Atlantis (1998)

Hearts in Atlantis

NEL paperback (2)

by and

  • ★★★ ★ 3.96 ·
  • 27 Ratings
  • 255 Want to read
  • 15 Currently reading
  • 69 Have read

'Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened.'

Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war — and the protests against it — flooded America's liGng rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis is composed of five linked stories set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.

Full of danger, fill of suspense, most of all fill of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been ... and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
--back cover

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New English Library
Language
English
Pages
621

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Subjects
Lord of the Flies, somatoform disorders, penance, dormitories, Hearts, The Dark Tower, psychics, Baby Boomer generation, thrillers, Bildungsromans, Manners and customs, suspense, horror, literary fiction, Social life and customs, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Fiction, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction, United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction, Fiction, horror, Maine, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), United states, social life and customs, fiction, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Influence, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Large type books, Fiction, war & military, Horror tales
People
Willie Shearman, Peter Riley, Carol Gerber, Low Men in Yellow Coats, Bobby Garfield, Ted Brautigan, John Sullivan, Crimson King, Denise Schoonover, Alvin Dark, Ronnie Malenfant, Dieffenbaker, Raymond Fiegler, Lyndon B. Johnson, Stokely Jones
Places
United States, Vietnam, University of Maine, Broad Street, Harwich, Connecticut, New York City, Đông Hà
Times
20th century, 1960s, 1966, 1999

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London

Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

Copyright Date
1999

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
621 p. ;
Number of pages
621

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25549568M
Internet Archive
heartsinatlantis0000king
ISBN 10
034073891X
ISBN 13
9780340738917
OCLC/WorldCat
1193949626
Amazon ID (ASIN)
034073891X
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56071655

Work Description

Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order.

The stories are about the Baby Boomer Generation, specifically King's view that this generation (to which he belongs) failed to live up to its promise and ideals. Significantly, the opening epigraph of the collection is the Peter Fonda line from the end of Easy Rider: "We blew it." All of the stories are about the 1960s and the war in Vietnam, and in all of them the members of that generation fail profoundly, or are paying the costs of some profound failure on their part.

In this collection:

  • Blind Willie
  • Hearts in Atlantis
  • Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling
  • Low Men in Yellow Coats
  • Why We're in Vietnam

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