false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180388771m/1033785.jpg 11602 47 Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads like a novel. The best is "Low Men in Yellow Coats," about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mom is impoverished, and so bitter that she barely loves him. King is as good as Spielberg or Steven Millhauser at depicting an enchanted kid's-eye view of the world, and his Harwich is realistically luminous to the tiniest detail: kids bashing caps with a smoke-blackened rock, a car grille "like the sneery mouth of a chrome catfish," a Wild Mouse carnival ride that makes kids "simultaneously sure they were going to live forever and die immediately."<p> Bobby's mom takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books like <I>Lord of the Flies</I>. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men--monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of <I>Lord of the Flies</I> (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mom's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film <I>Village of the Damned</I>: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier."<p> Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock, and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are crisscrossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 3166850 book 1999 Hearts in Atlantis total:9140|5:1928|4:2954|3:2949|2:1054|1:255| 9140 32666 10920 321 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 05 15:58:45 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 16:20:54 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 17:07:06 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 17:44:07 -0700 2009 1
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Ted's role in some shady, dystopian Universal Plan is never explained: only that he has some power the...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 16:48:56 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 00:29:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 30 20:57:52 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 21:01:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Fri Jul 24 21:40:44 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 21:44:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 20:23:14 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 18:56:22 -0700 2009 1 Stephen King fan, but I somehow missed reading this one until now, even though I’ve owned it since it was first published in hardcover. Here, SK goes all literary with an ode to the 60s, the baby boomers, and to lost innocence.

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Stephen King is a master storyteller, but I have trouble ...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 30 02:04:07 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 07 20:31:37 -0800 2009 در صورت تمایل، جهت مشخصات فیلمی که بر اساس این کتاب ساخته شده‌ است؛ می‌توانید از لینک زیر استفاده بفرمایید
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