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11/22/63: A Novel (Paperback) by Stephen King

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About the Book



Includes discussion questions and author interview.



Book Synopsis



One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco

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

In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King--who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer--takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away--a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life--like Harry's, like America's in 1963--turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession--to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there's Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.



About The Author



Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Dimensions (Overall): 9 Inches (H) x 6 Inches (W) x 2.4 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 880
Genre: True Crime, Mystery + Crime
Sub-Genre: Alternative History
Publisher: Gallery Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Stephen King
Language: English
Street Date: July 24, 2012
TCIN: 14181117
UPC: 9781451627299
Item Number (DPCI): 059-04-3277
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 1 pounds
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4.9 out of 5 stars with 9 reviews
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A must read

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Alex - 4 months ago
This quickly became my favorite King book. I couldn’t put it down.
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Can't Put It Down! This Is His Best Non Horror Book Yet
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Superb

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Brad - 3 years ago, Verified purchaser
I absolutely loved this book. It's my first Stephen King novel and I can't wait to explore more of what he's written. His dialogue and narration are fantastic. This is not only a great time-travel story -- it has a great romance story which I didn't even know I wanted until he got me so invested in these character's relationship. Beautifully done and I've never had a more visceral reaction to an ending before.
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Emma - 4 years ago
This book was amazing! My father and I both read it and it is highly recommended!!
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Raylan - 4 years ago
very well written and suspenseful
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Rosie - 5 years ago, Verified purchaser
Great read you want be disappointed
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good story

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Nancy - 9 years ago
very entertaining , time travel , period memories of the times before the JFK assassination
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