If you had the chance to change what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963 and save the life of President John F. Kennedy, would you?
Scribner
November 2011
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Featuring: Jake Epping / George Amberson; Al
960 pages ISBN: 1451627289 EAN: 9781451627282 Kindle: B004Q7CIFI Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas,
President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you
could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly
dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time
to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de
force.
Following his massively successful novel
Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to
another moment—a real life moment—when everything went
wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a
character who has the power to change the course of
history.
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high
school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes
extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives
an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing
first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry
Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his
sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a
smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local
diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958.
He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission
to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins
Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of
Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a
troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high
school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love
of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules
of time.
A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating
exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is
Stephen King at his epic best.
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