11/22/63: A NOVEL
By: King, Stephen
ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN
DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE
IT BACK? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King who has
absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more
imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer; takes readers on an
incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins
with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine,
who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about
an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away a gruesome,
harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's
father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a
sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life like
Harry's, like America's in 1963 turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al,
who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the
past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission
that has become his obsession to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins
Jake's new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and
Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From
the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there's Dunning business to
conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls
dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled
loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes
heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore.
Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying. TitlePeek
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