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Charles de Lint praised Hearts in Atlantis as "the Great American Baby Boomer Novel", saying that, "when he's at the top of his form, as he certainly is here, he [King] can be as provocative and inspired as <insert your favorite literary author here>." [2]
Sep 14, 1999 · One critic described Hearts in Atlantis as "the Great American Baby Boomer Novel". King at his best with Bobby, Carol and Sully with the elderly mysterious Ted. Peter Riley and Carol with the addictive Hearts card game and the burgeoning protests on campus over the Vietnam War.
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The book is a very emotional book, where King is writing a somewhat romanticized, partially idealized, and yet unforgiving autobiography of the baby boomer generation, as a card carrying member of same.
Hearts in Atlantis is the Great American Baby Boomer novel. It focuses on the generation that came of age during the turbulent sixties, the days of hippiedom and the Vietnam War, exploring their roots as well as what became of them when the love-beads and Purple Hearts were put away in boxes and the future arrived.
It perfectly captures the complexities of nervous adolescence, and it’s one of the most succinct snapshots of the baby boomer generation I’ve ever seen. Inspiring and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Sep 17, 1999 · A novel in five stories, with players sometimes migrating from one story to the next, Hearts in Atlantis uses the 1960s as memory and metaphor to both decode and make mysterious American...
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Sep 12, 1999 · Sept. 12, 1999. Bobby Garfield's father had been one of those fellows who start losing their hair in their twenties and are completely bald by the age of forty-five or so. Randall Garfield was...
