11/22/63 Special Signed Edition
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Stephen King
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a tour de force. Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. 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 fifty 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. A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.
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Author
Stephen King
Pages
864
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Published Date
2011-11-08
ISBN
1451663854 9781451663853
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"DO NOT WATCH THE MOVIE. Stephen King did a lot of background research for this book and it shows. Being from Dallas I found this book to be right on the nose. It was compelling and had all kinds of exciting moments that keep me wanting to never put this book down.
Knowing that the movie versions of a book are always a let down, this movie doesn’t even do the slightest bit of justice to the hard work Mr. King put into this masterpiece. It’s almost like the book and the movie are two different stories.
Read the book, forget the movie."
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