{"product_id":"hearts-in-atlantis","title":"Hearts in Atlantis","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Stephen King.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInnocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales--each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues to cast its shadow over American lives, politics and culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Part One, \u003cb\u003e\"Low Men in Yellow Coats,\"\u003c\/b\u003e eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn\u003cb\u003e \"Blind Willie\"\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\"Why We're in Vietnam,\"\u003c\/b\u003e two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow--and as haunted--as their own lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd in \u003cb\u003e\"Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,\" \u003c\/b\u003ethis remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of danger and suspense, full of heart, this spellbinding fiction will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely forget. Nearly twenty years after its first publication, \u003ci\u003eHearts in Atlantis \u003c\/i\u003eis powerful and astonishingly current. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"You will see Stephen King in a new light. Read this moving, heartfelt tragedy and weep--weep for our lost conscience.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\r","brand":"Stephen King","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44442569277676,"sku":"9781501195976","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781501195976.jpg?v=1720804940","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/hearts-in-atlantis","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}