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Hearts
in Atlantis by Stephen King Hearts
in Atlantis 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 discoveres 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.
Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all fully
heart, this book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and
other to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
Hardbound
in excellent condition.
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