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Hearts in Atlantis
- 598 pages · about 10 hours
- First published 1999
- 55 editions
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1 About this book
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.
Blind Willie Hearts in Atlantis Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling Low Men in Yellow Coats Why We're in Vietnam.
Good for readers who want: a coming-of-age story, horror, and a long read.
- Thrillers
- Bildungsromans
- Horror
- Literary fiction
- Psychics
- 1961-1975 Vietnam War
- United States
- United states, social life and customs
2 About Stephen King
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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