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Neniu kovrilo — Hearts in Atlantis (1999, Scribner Book Co.)

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Eldonita je 14-a de septembro 1999 de Scribner Book Co..

ISBN:: 978-0-684-84490-9

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From the Flap:

"ALTHOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE, THE SIXTIES ARE NOT FICTIONAL; THEY ACTUALLY HAPPENED."*

Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war--and the protests against it--had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.

In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats", 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.

In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card …

From the Flap:

"ALTHOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE, THE SIXTIES ARE NOT FICTIONAL; THEY ACTUALLY HAPPENED."*

Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war--and the protests against it--had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.

In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats", 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.

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.

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.

And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling", this book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.

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.

*from the Author's Note.

In this collection:

Blind Willie
Hearts in Atlantis
Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling
Low Men in Yellow Coats
Why We're in Vietnam

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Quaaltagh recenzis Atlantis de Stephen King

Reise in eine unbekannte Vergangenheit

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“Atlantis” ist kein typischer King – das schon einmal als klares Statement vorweg. Wer in erster Linie ein Freund der Horror-Geschichten des Autors ist, wird von diesem Buch möglicherweise enttäuscht sein. Wer aber das unschlagbare Talent Kings liebt, lebhafte Geschichten zu erzählen, und dabei auch vor einem kopflastigen Gesellschaftsportrait nicht zurückschreckt, wird in “Atlantis” eintauchen. Es ist ein kritischer Roman, der an vielen Stellen mit dem Klischee “früher war alles besser” aufräumt, der die Gräuel des Vietnamkrieges verurteilt und die daran gescheiterte Generation gefühlvoll beschreibt. Vor allem aber ist das Buch ein Katalysator für eine Reise in die eigene Vergangenheit – wenn man sich darauf einlässt. Die üblichen King-Elemente Action und Horror sucht man, mit Ausnahme eines leichten Anflugs von Übersinnlichem im ersten Teil, vergebens. Dennoch hat der Roman das Potenzial, zu fesseln – vielleicht auch nur, weil man gerade im Alter des Erzählers ist.

Ausführliche Rezension unter downatharrys.de/stephen-king-atlantis/