11/22/63: A Novel by King, Stephen

ISBN: 1501120603

Author: King, Stephen

Condition: new

Stephen Kings #1 bestselling time-travel novel-now a limited series on Hulu starring James Franco!In Stephen Kings most ambitious and accomplished (NPR) and extraordinary (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestselling novel, time travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.Dallas, 11/22/63: Three shots ring out. President John F. Kennedy is dead.Life can turn on a dime-or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his fathers sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown awaybut an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jakes friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession-to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diners storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smokeFinding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewrittenand become heart-stoppingly suspenseful.