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11.22.63
112263
Author: 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 thousand page tour de force. — Following his massively successful novel Un...  more », 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 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.

A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.
ISBN-13: 9781444727333
ISBN-10: 1444727338
Publication Date: 7/5/2012
Pages: 740
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  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Hodder Paperback
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 2
I thought this book had a wonderful premise and I was excited to read it. Parts of it were good but overall, I have to say I was disappointed. It could have ended several hundred pages before it did. I thought maybe there would be some new or different insights on Kennedy's assassination or the circumstances surrounding it but there were none. I found the ending weak. I had invested so much time in the book (it is over 800 pages) that I was determined to finish it, but it got to be more of a chore than an enjoyable read. Not a favorite of mine.
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