11/22/63 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781451627282)

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.

Author: Stephen King
ISBN-10: 1451627289
ISBN-13: 9781451627282
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2011
Pages: 864
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.70w x 2.40d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 42
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 148632 / 11/22/63

Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner
Award: Locus Awards - Nominee
Award: Thriller Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2011 pg. 59
Library Journal 09/15/2011 pg. 69
Booklist 09/15/2011 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 09/19/2011
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2011
Entertainment Weekly 10/28/2011 pg. 43
People Weekly 11/21/2011 pg. 49
Shelf Awareness 11/08/2011
Shelf Awareness 10/25/2011
Kirkus Best Books 11/15/2011 pg. 2065
Entertainment Weekly 12/02/2011 pg. 83
New York Times Book Review 11/13/2011 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 11/20/2011 pg. 30
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/04/2011 pg. 24
Entertainment Weekly 01/13/2012 pg. 85
Entertainment Weekly 07/27/2012 pg. 73
BookPage 11/01/2011