Hearts in Atlantis

Although it is difficult to believe, the Sixties are not fictional:THEY ACTUALLY HAPPENED.No matter the format, Stephen King's work is spellbinding because the author himself is spellbound. The first hugely popular writer of the TV generation, King published his first novel,Carrie,in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam. Images from that war -- and protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for nearly ten years. InHearts in Altantis,King mesmerizes readers with fiction deeply rooted in the Sixties, and explores -- through four defining decades -- the haunting legacy of the Vietmnam War.As the characters inHearts in Atlantisare tested in every way, King probes and unlocks the secrets of his generation for us all. Full of danger, full of suspense, and most of all full ofheart,Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been able to leave completely.