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 Kingβs heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassinationβa thousand page tour de force.
Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another momentβa real life momentβwhen 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 studentsβa gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunningβs 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, Jakeβs friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insaneβand insanely possibleβmission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakeβs 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 Jakeβs lifeβa 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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