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Brief Description:
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he 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 fifty 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.
Biographical Note:
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes
Never Flinch, the short story collection
You Like It Darker (a
New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024),
Holly (a
New York Times Notable Book of 2023),
Fairy Tale,
Billy Summers,
If It Bleeds,
The Institute,
Elevation,
The Outsider,
Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy:
End of Watch,
Finders Keepers, and
Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel
11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by
The New York Times Book Review and won the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works
The Dark Tower,
It,
Pet Sematary,
Doctor Sleep, and
Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with
It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Review Quotes:
"Fascinating... Captivating. It is not typical Stephen King. It is extraordinary Stephen King."
--USA Today
"Among living American novelists, Stephen King is the heavyweight champion... This may be his most haunted, and haunting, work."
--San Diego Union Tribune
Publisher Marketing:
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
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, whose life is upended when 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 the dying 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 the world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere and to the small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love. Every turn leads eventually 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.
Review Citations:
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Library Journal 06/15/2011 pg. 59 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Library Journal 09/15/2011 pg. 69 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Booklist 09/15/2011 pg. 32 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Publishers Weekly 09/19/2011 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2011 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
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Entertainment Weekly 10/28/2011 pg. 43 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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People Weekly 11/21/2011 pg. 49 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Shelf Awareness 11/08/2011 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Shelf Awareness 10/25/2011 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Kirkus Best Books 11/15/2011 pg. 2065 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Entertainment Weekly 12/02/2011 pg. 83 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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New York Times Book Review 11/13/2011 pg. 12 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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New York Times Book Review 11/20/2011 pg. 30 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/04/2011 pg. 24 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Entertainment Weekly 01/13/2012 pg. 85 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Entertainment Weekly 07/27/2012 pg. 73 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover)
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Entertainment Weekly 08/03/2012 pg. 79 (EAN 9781451627299, Paperback)
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New York Times Book Review 07/29/2012 pg. 24 (EAN 9781451627299, Paperback)
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People Weekly 09/10/2012 pg. 49 (EAN 9781451627299, Paperback)
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Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9781451627299, Paperback)
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Library Journal 02/01/2012 pg. 39 (EAN 9781442344303, MP3 CD)
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Publishers Weekly 01/02/2012 (EAN 9781442344280, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review
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Booklist Editors Choice/Media 01/01/2013 pg. 15 (EAN 9781442344280, Compact Disc)
Contributor Bio:King, Stephen
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes
Never Flinch, the short story collection
You Like It Darker (a
New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024),
Holly (a
New York Times Notable Book of 2023),
Fairy Tale,
Billy Summers,
If It Bleeds,
The Institute,
Elevation,
The Outsider,
Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy:
End of Watch,
Finders Keepers, and
Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel
11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by
The New York Times Book Review and won the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works
The Dark Tower,
It,
Pet Sematary,
Doctor Sleep, and
Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with
It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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