One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Publication Review

Winner of the Los Angeles Occasions Book Prize

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ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE Globe CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?

With this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King-who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation even more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer-takes readers about 11/22/63: A Book on an unbelievable journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

It starts with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old British teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to create about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away-a gruesome, harrowing story about the night a lot more than fifty years back when Harry Dunning’s father came home and wiped out his mother, his sister, and his sibling using a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is normally a watershed moment for Jake, his life-like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963-turning on the dime. Very little afterwards his friend Al, who possesses the neighborhood diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is normally a portal to days gone by, a particular day time in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has been his obsession-to avoid the Kennedy assassination.

So begins Jake’s new lease of life as George Amberson, inside a different globe of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and tobacco smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to carry out), to the warmhearted little town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is usually leading eventually, obviously, to a troubled loner called Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where in fact the history turns into heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history any more. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.