11/22/63 by Stephen King
ISBN 1-4516-2728-2
849 pages
Scribner (November 2011)
ABOUT THE BOOK
On November
22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and
the world changed forever.
If you had the chance to change the course of history, would you?
Would the consequences be worth it?
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.
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Great reviews. I loved the book and yet it disturbed me too.
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