The remaining 3 shorter stories just didn’t have that same level of impact. “Hearts in Atlantis” was a study in human nature that spoke to me on a deep level. I cared the most about the first two, and by far the longest two, stories, and honestly would have enjoyed the book more had it ended after “Hearts in Atlantis.” “Low Men in Yellow Coats” is perhaps one of the very best, most moving stories I’ve ever read. These interconnected novellas become more and more dependent on one another as they progress, telling different facets of the same story in a way. It’s not a novel, per se, nor is it a collection of short stories. Out of all of the Stephen King books I’ve read, this one is by far the strangest, at least in terms of set-up. Sticking the landing just isn’t his strength.

In my defense, the book made less and less sense as I read it, the stories flowing less effortlessly and feeling more forced. So if it doesn’t make a ton of sense, that’s why. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been.and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.Disclaimer: I read this book and wrote big portions of this review while ill. And in 'Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,' this 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. In 'Blind Willie' and 'Why We're in Vietnam,' 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. In 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. 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 neighborhood. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, 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's living rooms for a decade. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S.

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