num_pages: 512
description: 'Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened' (Author's Afterword)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 - had flooded America's living 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, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Hearts in Atlantis will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
language: English
title: Hearts in Atlantis
titlecomplete: Hearts in Atlantis
characters: American Law Enforcement, Liz Garfield, Willie Shearman, Peter Riley, Ronnie Malenfant, Bobby Garfield, John Sullivan, Ted Brautigan, The Crimson King, Carol Gerber
genres: Fiction, War, Short Stories, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural, Suspense
ratings_count: 93709
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Collection, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Collection
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd