Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King - ISBN: 9781444707885
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Sixties memories, Vietnam’s shadow: hearts face danger and suspense.

Hearts in Atlantis

Literary suspense from the No. 1 bestseller

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  • Paperback

    688 pages

  • Release Date

    13 September 2011

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Summary

‘Although it’s difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened’ (Author’s Afterword)

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. Images from that war - and the protests against it - had flooded America’s living rooms for a decade.

Hearts in Atlantis is composed offive linked stories set in the years from 1960 to 1999…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781444707885
ISBN-10:1444707884
Author:Stephen King
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder & Stoughton
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:688
Release Date:13 September 2011
Weight:480g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 46mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

A writer of excellence … King is one of the most fertile story-tellers of the modern novel … brilliantly done - Marcel Berlins The Sunday Times

An incredibly gifted writer - Guardian

Astonishingly good - Independent

About The Author

Stephen King

Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as ‘one of the greatest storytellers of our time’, by the Mirror as a ‘genius’ and by The Sunday Times as ‘one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel.’ In 2003, he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, for most of the year in Maine, USA.

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