11.22.63

About this book

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63 the date that Kennedy was shot - unless ...King takes his protagonist Jake Epping a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls Maine 2011 on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill who becomes the love of Jakes life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.With extraordinary imaginative power King weaves the social political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.