{"product_id":"hearts-in-atlantis-book-king-9780743436212","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\u003eLow 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\u003eWhy 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\u003eHeavenly 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\u003eYou 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49630380917009,"sku":"GOR007577331","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49748852146449,"sku":"CIN0743436210A","price":5.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49882455277841,"sku":"CIN0743436210G","price":5.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50330397737233,"sku":"CIN0743436210VG","price":4.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50930088509713,"sku":"GOR007907475","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0743436210.jpg?v=1750881741","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/hearts-in-atlantis-book-king-9780743436212","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}