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Overview
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Stephen King's #1 bestselling time-travel novel--now a limited series on 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.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: King, Stephen
- ISBN: 9781451627282
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.40 x 2.40
- Number Of Pages: 864
- Publication Year: 2011
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English
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Don't Let the Length Intimidate You!
Monica F. - 5 years 2 months agoSuch a great book and so creative! I love the mix of historical fact and Steven King fiction interwoven throughout this incredibly long novel. Don't let it intimidate you, it's a very long book but you'll get sucked into the fantasy and excitement!
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Fascinating adventure into American history and so much more.
Wendy E. - 5 years 2 months agoExcellent read. It's not a standard King horror novel, with unseen evils, ghosts or monsters, but a fascinating adventure into American history that was difficult for me to put down, from cover to cover. It provides a lot of food for thought on just how one person's actions can cause far-reaching impact for decades to come. #SpringPicks
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This one is good
Gunnar O. - 5 years 2 months agoNot a book I expected from Stephen King, but it is now one of my all time favorites. The middle of the book drags a little bit, but the ending is worth it. #SpringPicks
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A great read
Janet G. - 5 years 10 months agoI am about half way through and this book has me hooked. I would definitely recommend it to others. ( I already have).
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Trip through time
Martin W. - 6 years agoReally well done and interesting. King always has a knack for sending a reader back in time, and this book is no exception. #SummerReading