Series
Hearts in Atlantis
Stephen King · 2 novellas · 2 novelettes · 1 short story · 1 collection · 1994–1999
Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a single book of five linked, chronologically ordered stories rather than a multi-volume series, connected by recurring characters and centered on the Vietnam-era 1960s. The opening novella, Low Men in Yellow Coats, follows young Bobby Garfield's friendship with Ted Brautigan, an old man with psychic powers being hunted by sinister figures called the low men, and sets up the themes of lost innocence and quiet betrayal that run through the rest of the book.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
Hearts in Atlantis at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s6
Shape
2 novellas · 2 novelettes · 1 short story · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:literary & generalgrief and lossnorth americamid 20th centuryreflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 83% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Blind Williedarkest
- Heavenly Shades of Night Are Fallingbrightest · calmest
- Low Men in Yellow Coatsmost intense