With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense. Stephen King's incredibly ambitious, heartstoppingly dramatic time travel novel, 11.22.63 is a riveting, high-stakes political story like Under the Dome, a love story like Bag of Bones and a 1950s community like IT.  It's also a WHAT IF? story like no one's ever read before - a one thousand page tour de force. 

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Synopsis

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless ...King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, 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.

Reviews

'Fine stories to take with us into the night.'
Neil Gaiman on FULL DARK, NO STARS in the Guardian

'America's greatest living novelist.'
Lee Child

'King's gift of storytelling is unrivalled. His ferocious imagination is unlimited.'
George Pelecanos

'King's most purely entertaining novel in years ... utterly compelling.'
John Connolly on UNDER THE DOME

'Staggeringly addictive.'
USA Today on UNDER THE DOME

'Tight and energetic from start to finish.'
New York Times on UNDER THE DOME

'The pedal is indeed to the metal.'
Guardian on UNDER THE DOME

About the Author

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the fall of 1973, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 40 books and has become one of the world's most successful writers.   Stephen lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. They are regular contributors to a number of charities including many libraries and have been honored locally for their philanthropic activities.   Stephen King photo © Shane Leonard More books by this author Author 'Like for Like' recommendation