World Fantasy Award nominee 2012, British Fantasy Award nominee 2012, Locus Award nominee 2012.
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.
