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11/22/63: A Novel Hardcover - 2011
by King, Stephen
- Used
King's heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. Jake Epping is a 35-year-old high-school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958.
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Details
- Title 11/22/63: A Novel
- Author King, Stephen
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition UsedAcceptable
- Pages 864
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
- Date 2011-11-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 570W2K000NBB_ns
- ISBN 9781451627282 / 1451627289
- Weight 2.75 lbs (1.25 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6.7 x 2.4 in (23.88 x 17.02 x 6.10 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Time travel, Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011025874
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
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.
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.
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/15/2011, Page 32
- BookPage, 11/01/2011, Page 0
- Entertainment Weekly, 10/28/2011, Page 43
- Kirkus Best Books, 11/15/2011, Page 2065
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2011, Page 0
- Library Journal, 06/15/2011, Page 59
- New York Times Book Review, 11/13/2011, Page 12
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/04/2011, Page 24
- People Weekly, 11/21/2011, Page 49
- Publishers Weekly, 09/19/2011, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 11/08/2011, Page 0