He lives with his mother and pals around with his best friends, Carol and Sully-John. Bobby Garfield, Carol Gerber, John Sullivan (Sully-John), William (Willie) Shearman and Ted Brautigan.īobby is the main character in this one. The first story in the collection is a beautiful coming of age tale, somewhat similar in feel to King’s novella “The Body.” Here King introduces the readers to all the main characters you will encounter later. They are all beautifully written it is truly some of King’s best work.ġ960: They had a stick sharpened at both ends. The first two stories have a feel of a brewing storm and impending doom while the last three all seem to deal with the after-effects of the storm (flood).
These stories span from 1960 to 1999 and are all connected by feel, theme, and recurring characters. In one passage, King even refers to the war itself as “the apocalyptic continent drowner.” King repeatedly refers to this generation, and America during this time period, as the lost city of Atlantis. This is King’s deep dive into the generation involved with the Vietnam War. Sales and reception of the collection were probably hindered by this, but the collection is still a thing of beauty. Ted helps Billy realize that his friend Carol is more special to him than he thought, that he deserves better treatment from his mother, and that the town bully is not as powerful as he thinks.“Hearts in Atlantis” was released in September, 1999 but King had this 522-page collection of two novellas and three short stories finished in December 1998, before his near-fatal car accident in June of 1999. Even more important, though, is that way that Ted, like all special grown-ups in the lives of children, guides Billy to a new knowledge of himself and the world. When Billy touches Ted, he gets a little bit of Ted's psychic ability. He begins to see signs of the low men, but he does not tell Ted. Billy thinks Ted is a little loony, but he agrees, at first because he wants to earn money for the bicycle, and then because he is drawn to Ted's warmth, humor, and even his oddness. Billy's mom takes in stranger Ted Brautigan (Anthony Hopkins), who hires Billy to read to him and watch out for "the low men," who wear hats, drive fancy cars, and leave odd messages in code on telephone poles.
His widowed mother can't buy him the bicycle he dreams and is quick to remind him that they have very little money.
It is summertime, and Billy has just turned 11.
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