Hearts in Atlantis
Autor Stephen Kingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2000
Vezi toate premiile Carte premiată
Bram Stoker Awards (1999)
În Low Men in Yellow Coats, Bobby Garfield, un băiat în vârsta de 11 ani descoperă o lume plină de venin în cartierul său, iar uneori adulții nu sunt cei care salvează situația, ci cei care declanșează teroarea.
În povestirea care dă titlul volumului, o gașcă de liceeni sunt prinși într-un joc de cărți, descoperă posibilitatea protestului și confruntă împreună întunericul care transformă zâmbetele nevinovate în țipete disperate.
În Blind Willie și Why We're in Vietnam, doi bărbați care au crescut alături de Bobby în suburbia din Connecticut încearcă să umple un gol lăsat de America post-Vietnam care i-a lăsat pustiiți sufletește.
În Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling, Bobby se întoarce în orașul natal pentru a afla un secret și dorința inimii care îl așteaptă.
Plină de pericole, suspans, dar și plină de căldură, Hearts in Atlantis duce cititorul spre locuri nemaîntâlnite, dar și spre locuri pe care nu le-au putut părăsi în întregime.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780671024246
ISBN-10: 0671024248
Pagini: 688
Ilustrații: Mit Abb.
Dimensiuni: 107 x 174 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10: 0671024248
Pagini: 688
Ilustrații: Mit Abb.
Dimensiuni: 107 x 174 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Simon & Schuster
Descriere scurtă
Hearts In Atlantis 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 "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood and 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 haunted as their own lives. And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, and his heart's desire may await him. Full of danger, suspense, and full of heart, Hearts In Atlantis takes some listeners to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
Descriere
Taking its cue from the fractured times it describes between 1960 and today, each beautifully interwoven tale is deeply rooted in the sixties, each is haunted by the Vietnam war. This is a book about a group of peers from small-town Harwich, Connecticut: in 1960, there's a newcomer to the town, who introduces Bobby Garfield to the joy of reading and the horrors of 'low men in yellow coats'; by 1966, it's bellbottom pants, pot, patchouli and peace-signs and at Maine University, Pete, who has fallen victim to the addictive game of ‘hearts in Atlantis’, will learn a lesson in humanity; by 1983, 'Nam vet 'Blind Willie' is paying penance; in 1999, there are reunions, funerals, and the eternal questions - 'why we're in Vietnam'; a year later, Bobby comes home to where his heart is, where the past is always present, as 'Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling'.
Notă biografică
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.
Recenzii
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
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Guardian
Astonishingly
good
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Independent
Premii
- Bram Stoker Awards Nominee, 1999