Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

‘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 offive 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.

The classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King, now with a new cover look.

About the Author: Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as ‘one of the greatest storytellers of our time’, by the Mirror as a ‘genius’ and by The Sunday Times as ‘one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel.’ In 2003, he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, for most of the year in Maine, USA.

04 Oct 2007
 

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King ISBN 9781444707885