One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
This enhanced ebook edition contains a 13-minute film, written and narrated by Stephen King and enhanced with historic footage from CBS News, that will take you backāas Kingās novel doesāto Kennedy era America.
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 Kingās heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassinationāa thousand page tour de force.
Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another momentāa real life momentāwhen 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 studentsāa gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunningās 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, Jakeās friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insaneāand insanely possibleāmission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakeās 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 Jakeās life ā 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.