In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In Part One, 'Low Men in Yellow Coats', eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighbourhood. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. Hearts in Atlantis is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Images from that war - and the protests against it - had flooded America living rooms for a decade. 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. 'Although it is difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional they actually happened.
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