11/22/63: A Novel

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Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE 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 Kingwho has absorbed the social political and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writertakes 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 whose life is upended when 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 the dying Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsessionto prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakes new life as George Amberson in the world of Ike and JFK and Elvis of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere and to the small town of Jodie Texas where Jake falls dangerously in love. Every turn leads eventually 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.