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Hearts in Atlantis (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Hearts in Atlantis - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Stephen King, William Hurt (Narrator) With these five novellas, all rooted in the 1960s, Stephen King tackles the horrors of the Vietnam war and the fears and dangers of a precarious childhood. — Contents: — Low men in yellow coats -- — Hearts in Atlantis -- — Blind Willie -- — Why we're in Vietnam -- — Heavenly shades of night are falling. — Audio Review: — HEARTS IN ATLANTIS of... more »fers five novellas, each examining both childhood and the Vietnam War. William Hurt opens the series with a quirky and riveting account of a summer in the lives of three Connecticut children and the adults who influence them. His odd pauses and rushing narrative clearly portray the images of childhood, and the unsettling ways of grown-ups, as well. King takes over for the title story, about a game of cards in a college dorm. No one else could bring to life the University of Maine like this alum, and no one else could better vocalize the deep woods accents of some of its students. The author falls short, however, in his narration of "Blind Willie." Believable in Maine, he doesn't cut it in New York City. But Hurt is back for the closing segments, "Why We're in Vietnam" and "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," notably more subdued in these accounts of adult pain and longing than in his exuberant telling of childhood tales. Well-chosen musical sound bites punctuate all five stories. -- AudioFile
Read by the author and William Hurt
20 sound discs (in 2 containers) (20 hr., 15 min.)« less