Big Beautiful Woman: Alanna Files, who runs the pool hall Bobby's dad used to hang out at.

Auto Erotica: Pete Riley loses his virginity to Carol in his station wagon.

The Atoner: Much of Willie Sherman's life is spent trying to repent for his involvement in Carol's injury when he was a kid.

King acknowledges this in the afterward, saying the show fit so much better than anything else from the period he could think of that he went ahead with it anyway.

Artistic License – History: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of The Prisoner (1967), despite the story being set a year before the series aired.

Artifact Title: As the title story was not adapted in the film, the title itself has little bearing on the actual film besides an offhand comment about childhood from Ted.

Animate Inanimate Object: The Low Men's cars are implied to be sentient.

Willie looks at a picture of his family and sees his father smiling 'like he'd never pushed his son over in his high chair or hit his wife with a beer bottle.'.

She gets especially nasty after she's been raped by her boss, accusing Bobby of being involved in molesting Carol.

Abusive Parents: Bobby's mother is at least emotionally distant and neglectful of her son.

Low Men in Yellow Coats was made into a 2001 film adaptation directed by Scott Hicks and starring Anthony Hopkins and Anton Yelchin.

Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling: Bobby returns to his former home as an adult and confronts his past. Why We're in Vietnam: In 1999, a Vietnam vet and childhood friend of Bobby attends the funeral of another veteran and is haunted by the horrors that he witnessed during the war.

When they become addicted to playing 'Hearts', their grades begin to suffer and the threat of getting drafted looms.īlind Willie: In 1983, a Vietnam vet disguises himself as a blind beggar as a form of penance for an act he committed during his childhood. Hearts in Atlantis: In 1966, a group of young men attend college to avoid having to serve in Vietnam. Bobby soon discovers that Ted possesses psychic abilities and is being pursued by the sinister 'Low Men in Yellow Coats'. Low Men in Yellow Coats: In 1960, young Bobby Garfield befriends an older man named Ted Brautigan living in his boarding house. The bulk of the stories concern the Baby Boomer generation and life in The '60s, as well as the impact of the Vietnam War. Hearts in Atlantis is a 1999 anthology of interconnected stories written by Stephen King.

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