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The master of horror and suspense turns his pen to more subtle storytelling in these five interconnected stories in which he explores the darker sides of human nature as he chronicles the 1960s, the Vietnam War, and their aftermath in American life. Reissue. (An upcoming Castle Rock Entertainment film, directed by Scott Hicks, written by William Goldman, starring Anthony Hopkins).

'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.

Master storyteller Stephen King presents his classic bestselling story collection Hearts In Atlantis.Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales—each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each haunted by the Vietnam War. “Low Men in Yellow Coats”: A boy discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood, and that adults are sometimes not rescuers, but at the heart of terror…. “Hearts in Atlantis”: A bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast…. “Blind Willie” and “Why We’re in Vietnam”: Two men attempt to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America that sometimes seems as hollow and haunted as their own lives…. “Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling”: A man returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart’s desire may await him…. Full of danger and suspense, Hearts in Atlantis is spellbinding fiction that will take you to a place you have never been…and a place you may never be able to completely leave.