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11/22/63: A Novel
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.
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.
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Whoa!!! It is honestly difficult to put this novel into a short review. If you like history, if you like time-travel, if you like romance, if you like suspense and mystery...you will love this book! I originally started reading this book for two reasons: 1) it sounded super interesting at the idea of someone getting to change the past and see how it affected the future and 2) I wanted to say that I read a Stephen King novel. Chapter after chapter, I was sucked in more and more, wondering why certain details were important and then shocked when those details were brought back in ways I could have never imagined. There are often books that do so well throughout the story but then end so poorly but this is not the case. I honestly think that the last chapter what the best part. The past truly harmonizes with itself!
I highly recommend this book to everyone! It is quite a feat but any Stephen King novel will be. I listened to the audiobook while reading along with the novel and this added so much more character and imagery to the story so I would recommend that readers do the same.
Get ready to enter an adventure that will bring every emotion to the surface and will make you feel like you are living the past right along with Mr. George Amberson!
I highly recommend this book to everyone! It is quite a feat but any Stephen King novel will be. I listened to the audiobook while reading along with the novel and this added so much more character and imagery to the story so I would recommend that readers do the same.
Get ready to enter an adventure that will bring every emotion to the surface and will make you feel like you are living the past right along with Mr. George Amberson!
Stephen King can write anything, not just HORROR, I love this book, great research, I love all things about history but this assignation has been my life long research, I read the whole Warren Commission report, no small task . Thank you so much for writing this book.
I was reluctant to read this book since it was by Stephen King, known for his horror books, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was looking at the assassination of John F. Kennedy from multiple perspectives, each which takes place with a slightly altered time. What if time travel was possible and you could prevent Kennedy from being killed? It was a fascinating look back at life in the 1960s and a quite interesting perspective of what might have been.
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