Although it is difficult to believe, the Sixties are not fictional:<P> THEY ACTUALLY HAPPENED.<P> <P> No matter the format, Stephen King's work is spellbinding because the author himself is spellbound. The first hugely popular writer of the TV generation, King published his first novel, <I>Carrie,</i> in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam. Images from that war -- and protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for nearly ten years. In <I>Hearts in Altantis,</i> King mesmerizes readers with fiction deeply rooted in the Sixties, and explores -- through four defining decades -- the haunting legacy of the Vietmnam War. <P> As the characters in <I>Hearts in Atlantis</i> are tested in every way, King probes and unlocks the secrets of his generation for us all. Full of danger, full of suspense, and most of all full of <I>heart,</i> Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been able to leave completely.