And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind,

Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new

Hail Atlantis

Way down below the ocean

Where I want to be, she made me, where I'm going to be, and this

Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week, I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological

order of publication, and this week, guys, I'm revealing the 1999 novella collection

Hearts in Atlantis.

Now, as you know, at least once a decade, King has published a collection of novellas,

a tradition that began with 1983's different seasons, a collection that included

the body, apt pupil, and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.

In 1990, King released an examination on the malleable nature of time with four past midnight,

and now, published right before we entered a new millennia, King released a series of stories

looking at the Baby Boomer Generation.

Unlike each of the previous novella collections, Hearts and Atlantis is a series of interconnected

vignettes, linked together through characters who bump up against each other.

Each story examines a different viewpoint of their lives,

with the first and the last stories focusing on Bobby Garfield, first as a child and later as an adult.

Because these stories are so interconnected, this review is going to look different from the reviews of the previous novella collections.

In different seasons and four past midnight, I devoted an episode for each of the stories within.

But because the novellas included here are so woven in and out of each other,

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