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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A meditation on cause and effect, the ripple of choices, and the bittersweet limits of even the best intentions.
Stephen King's 11/22/63 is a sprawling, genre-bending novel that explores the tantalising question: what if you could go back in time and stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?
When high school teacher Jake Epping is introduced to a mysterious time portal hidden in the pantry of a dying friend's diner, he’s thrust into 1958 with the extraordinary chance to change history. Al, the diner's owner, has used the portal himself in an attempt to alter tragic events, and now tasks Jake with an even greater mission: prevent the assassination of JFK.
But altering the past is no mean feat. The deeper Jake immerses himself in the world of late-1950s America, the more he realises how stubborn the past can be. “The past is obdurate,” Al warns, and Jake learns just how true that is.... Read Full Review
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.
11.22.63 features in the following genres: Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations
11.22.63 is available in Paperback, Hardback
11.22.63 was written by Stephen King and published by Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
11.22.63 has 740 pages
£11.69
