11/22/63: A Novel

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 Kings heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassinationa thousand page tour de force. Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome King sweeps readers back in time to another momenta real life momentwhen 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 studentsa gruesome harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunnings 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 Jakes friend Al who runs the local diner divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insaneand insanely possiblemission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakes 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 Jakes lifea 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.