{"product_id":"hearts-in-atlantis-9781501195976","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501195976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.50d","brand":"Stephen King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36654895071388,"sku":"9781501195976","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0e338ca5-f209-4d0f-b881-530dbce5d904.jpg?v=1603884329","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hearts-in-atlantis-9781501195976","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}