11/22/63: A Novel

Following his massively profitable novel Below the Dome, King sweeps readers again in time to a different second—an actual life second—when every thing went unsuitable: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a personality who has the facility to vary the course of historical past.

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old highschool English trainer in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes more money instructing adults within the GED program. He receives an essay from one of many college students—a ugly, harrowing first individual story in regards to the night time 50 years in the past when Harry Dunning’s father got here dwelling and killed his mom, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked stroll.

Not a lot later, Jake’s pal Al, who runs the native diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely attainable—mission to attempt to stop the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of massive American automobiles and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a fantastic highschool librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who turns into the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the conventional guidelines of time.

A tribute to an easier period and a devastating train in escalating suspense,
11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic finest.