A potent coming-of-age tale, the story connects to King's Dark Tower saga. The first, the novel-length ""Low Men in Yellow Coats,"" is the most traditionally King: an alienated youth, Bobby Garfield, is befriended by a new neighbor, the elderly Ted Brautigan, who introduces him to literature and turns out to be on the run from villainous creatures from another time/dimension. The stories proceed chronologically, from 1960 to 1999. By ""hearts,"" he means not just the seat of love but the card game, which figures prominently in the second of the five scarcely linked narratives in this full-bodied but disjointed omnibus, King's third (after Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight). By ""Atlantis,"" King means the 1960s, that otherworldly decade that, like the fabled continent, has sunk into myth.
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