Hearts in Atlantis (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen King
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novellas and short fiction
- Time of Work: 1960-1999
- Setting: Connecticut, Maine, New York City, and Vietnam
- Principal Characters: Bobby Garfield, Liz Garfield, Ted Brautigan, Carol Gerber, John Sullivan (“Sully- John”), Peter Riley, Ronnie Malenfant, Bill Shearman
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: New York, NY
The narratives in Hearts in Atlantis give the impression of having been originally composed as separate projects and then spliced together to make a book. The first two take up over 400 pages of the 523-page book and have virtually nothing to tie them together except the fact that Carol Gerber, who appears as a little girl in “Low Men in Yellow Coats,” pops up as a coed in “Hearts in Atlantis.”
King can do no wrong; he has so much talent, such a zany imagination, and so many adoring fans that any book bearing his name is almost automatically a best-seller. In...
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