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'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.
- Sales Rank: #4831 in Audible
- Published on: 2001-10-10
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 1209 minutes
Amazon.com Review
Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads like a novel. The best is "Low Men in Yellow Coats," about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mom is impoverished, and so bitter that she barely loves him. King is as good as Spielberg or Steven Millhauser at depicting an enchanted kid's-eye view of the world, and his Harwich is realistically luminous to the tiniest detail: kids bashing caps with a smoke-blackened rock, a car grille "like the sneery mouth of a chrome catfish," a Wild Mouse carnival ride that makes kids "simultaneously sure they were going to live forever and die immediately."
Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."
Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. --Tim Appelo
From Publishers Weekly
By "Atlantis," King means the 1960s, that otherworldly decade that, like the fabled continent, has sunk into myth. By "hearts," he means not just the seat of love but the card game, which figures prominently in the second of the five scarcely linked narratives in this full-bodied but disjointed omnibus, King's third (after Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight). The stories proceed chronologically, from 1960 to 1999. The first, the novel-length "Low Men in Yellow Coats," is the most traditionally King: an alienated youth, Bobby Garfield, is befriended by a new neighbor, the elderly Ted Brautigan, who introduces him to literature and turns out to be on the run from villainous creatures from another time/dimension. A potent coming-of-age tale, the story connects to King's Dark Tower saga. The novella-length title entry, set in 1966 and distinguished by a bevy of finely etched characters, concerns a college dorm whose inhabitants grow dangerously addicted to hearts. The last three pieces are short stories. "Blind Willie," set in 1983, details the penance paid by a Vietnam vet for a wartime sin, as does "Why We're in Vietnam." The concluding tale, "Heavenly Shades of Night Falling," revives Bobby and provides closure. Sometimes the stories feel like experiments, even exercises, and they can wear their craft on their sleevesAin the way the game of hearts symbolizes the quagmire of Vietnam, for instance, or in how each narrative employs a different prose style, from the loose-limbed third-person of "Low Men" to the tighter first-person of "Hearts," and so on. With about ten million published words and counting, King probably can write a seductive story in his sleep and none of these artful tales are less; but only the title story rivals his best work and, overall, the volume has a patchy feel, and exudes a bittersweet obsession with the past that will please the author's fellow babyboomersAKing nails the '60s and its legacyAbut may make others grind their teeth.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
YA-An intricate and compelling tapestry of the '60s and those who came of age during that turbulent decade. Readers first meet 11-year-old Bobby Garfield in suburban Connecticut in 1960. He and his friends, Sully John and Carol, come to the end of their collective childhood during that summer when violence, rage, guilt, shame, and heroism break up their close-knit relationship. The second story begins six years later on the University of Maine campus. A card game, Hearts, threatens the college future of a group of freshmen. Outside, the Vietnam War and its concurrent rebellion are raging. Pete, the protagonist, offers a firsthand view of the craziness of the time. The link to the first story is Carol, Bobby's childhood friend, with whom Pete falls in love. The next two stories each follow another figure from the summer of 1960: Bobby's friend Sully John and a member of a trio that assaulted Carol. Both young men are Vietnam vets, each one crippled in his own way from his war experience. The final story finds middle-aged Bobby returning to Connecticut, coming full circle with the events of his life. This is a very long book; however, after reading a few pages, most teens will be hard-pressed to put it down. The characters are compelling and well drawn, the action is ingeniously interwoven from story to story, and the feel of the 60s, and the baggage carried into later decades, is vivid, harsh, and absolutely true.
Carol DeAngelo, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Dark Tower Fans - Here's another tie in
By Ralph Cramden
I've listened to this audio book twice and I'll listen to it again. King's story telling mastery shines in this one tieing the world of the "low men in yellow dusters" (agents of the Dark Tower's Crimson King) who search for and finally catch Ted (an escaped breaker - psychics who are captured by the Crimson King and forced to aid this monster in trying to destroy the tower - the object of Roland's quest in the Dark Tower series); with the world of Bobby, a young boy just entering his teen years who lives in the same rental building where Ted takes up residency while trying to hide from the low men. Bobby strikes up a friendship with the much older and mysterious Ted who hires Bobby to read the daily newspaper to him and to watch the neighborhood for signs that the low men may be close by. When Bobby starts seeing the signs he is supposed to watch for, he doesn't tell Ted because he knows that Ted will flee the low men if they are near.
Bobby's two closest young friends are Carol and Sully John who also are drawn into Ted's wierd and mysterious circle of influence. Before he is captured by the low men Ted uses his abilities to help heal the injured Carol when Bobby carries her home after she is beaten by the neighborhood bully boys with a baseball bat.
In the later short stories tied into this book so smoothly by the King, Bobby and Carol are reunited during their college years after being separated following Ted's capture when Bobby's mother abruptly leaves the neighborhood for a new town and a new job after she was horribly attacked and sexually assulted by her boss and 2 of his croonies at a real estate convention where the ambitious and not so gullible mother has manuvered herself leaving Bobby in Ted's care while she is gone.
Bobby's life in the college dorms is a nostalgic trip for those of us who entered college during the Viet Nam era, and his passing reunification with Carol has a striking resemblance to the ships-passing-in-the-night relationship between Forest Gump and the love of his life. The beginning and ending of this book involves Bobby's return to the old neighborhood to attend Carol's funeral.
For those who are Dark Tower junkies like me, the timing of this book fills in some vital facts about what is wrong with the Tower which King has not yet revealed in the Tower series books. You can also pick up more insights regarding the cause of the problems with the tower in Insomnia, and Black House.
In all this is another great story by the master story-teller of our time with magically vivid characters and richly described worlds for them to live in. NOBODY but King could take 5 short stories and tie them together so smoothly while revealing as yet untold details for an entirely different series of Books which he has been creating over the last 30+ years. Amazing.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Should have stopped halfway through
By Michael H. Siegel
Halfway through Hearts in Atlantis, I was thinking this was a four-star book. The first and longest story in Stephen King's collection is an intruiging tale of a young boy in 1960 Maine and his relationship with a mysterious lodger. It has interesting ties to the Dark Tower, but stronger ties to books like From A Buick 8. We meet Bobby Garfield -- a young man on the brink of both adolescence and the 60's -- and we watch him try to work through the unexpected perils of watching for the Low Men in Yellow Coats -- a danger he think is a figment of the imagination before discovering that they are all too real. It held my attention consistently and I was hoping the rest of the book would continue to do so.
Alas, it did not. If there's anything worse than Baby Boomer self-indulgence, it's sulf-indulgent stories that lement that generation's self-indulgence. The rest of the boook has tenuous and frankly unmoving ties to the trio of young characters in Low Men, telling about how several people move through the 60's to the 90's. The title story about an out-of-control hearts game, is slow, dull and the climax feels forced. The next two are the usual garbage positing that Vietnam was the first time people realized that war is hell. The last is an unsatisfactory climax that tries to tie everything back together.
Contrary to popular belief, King *can* write good fiction that has no supernatural element. I refer you his collection Four Seasons, for example, which contains three excellent non-supernatural stories. But these stories are nowhere near that quality.
The frustrating thing is that there *was* a good story here somewhere. Had King stuck with Bobby, Carol and Sully-John, the second half of the collection might have been interesting. But as it is, it was a painful read, something I'm unused to from King.
Buy for the first story and then put this on the shelf.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Aces, all around
By jmh
Bravo to Stephen King who once again re-creates literature. Never one to stick to a rigid formula of presentation, he artfully produces his novels with brilliant creativity. The man blends the real and imaginary into stories that are unique and on the edge. For this alone, he deserves recognition.
Hearts in Atlantis is an interwoven tale that will touch your heart if you let it. For those of the nay-sayers, I respect your opinions, but feel you are missing out on some incredible reads. I am saying this as one being very new on the SK band wagon...I started with one novel and was led to another, then another. I caught the rhythm and was intrigued by references to his past stories.
Ever alert to new and old material, I adore how King links honored literature and movies within the story content, provoking my re-interest in books I read in high school and all the books and movies that slipped by me over the years since. I feel as if he personally offers me his favorites; a true gift of sorts for the impassioned reader and lover of old movies.
Hearts in Atlantis weaves a collection of stories which connect to each other through a selection of characters that, of course, touch your heart, but never allows you the luxury of surmising the outcome. A boy's childhood (Bobby) is revealed , along with the growing pains of adolescence and the heartbreak of being a son without a father . Elegantly portrayed, a lodger named Ted becomes a substitute male figure for this love starved youth. Ted has some secrets of his own, and makes Bobby aware of his fears that he is being stalked by some shady characters. Just as a child's imagination runs wild, the reality of Ted is in fact the truth. He reluctantly takes Bobby into his confidence, and Bobby discovers that life is not as simple as a baseball game.
The book revolves around a key set of friends that grow up together. It blends them into a broader representation of what life was like for the generation immediately affected by the war in Viet Nam. In the course of the story past characters and story lines are intelligently interjected, beckoning one to know more, yet satisfied with the story before you.
And so, I was introduced to past story lines (Dark Towers) represented in a selection of novels Mr. King has written. Even though I was unfamiliar with them, I was compelled to read them, anxious to know more and to quench the thirst that seems to arise when I read his novels. That I did not know of them made no difference to me in regards to this experience of reading_ Hearts in Atalantis _for the story was delivered well regardless.
Simply said, that is the job Mr. King does. He inspires you to wonder , to consider, to beckon the possiblilities he presents. He offers wonderful stories, twisted with magic and the illogic, ever beckoning you to stretch your imagination and just wonder what would it be like to...well experience what he imagines. He touches your heart and raises your pulse. The rest of the outcome is up to you.
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