num_pages: 673
description: `Although it is difficult to believe, the 60s are not fictional; they actually happened` `from the Author`s Note`. HEARTS IN ATLANTIS is comprised of five brilliant, interconnected, sequential narratives, each deeply rooted in the 60s and haunted by the Vietnam War. In `Low Men in Yellow Coats` 11-year-old Bobby 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. 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. And in `Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling` Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart`s desire may await him.
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