11/22/63 (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 48 Ratings
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- $38.99
Publisher Description
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 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, 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 obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
So begins Jake’s 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Stephen King’s 11/22/63 is proof that he’s more than the king of horror. This ambitious, emotionally rich novel trades monsters for memories, sending a Maine schoolteacher through a portal straight into the heart of mid-century America. Jake Epping’s mission is simple but impossible: prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Yet as he builds a new life in the past, falling in love and questioning fate itself, the book becomes a meditation on history, consequence, and the things we can’t change. Throughout this immersive story, King captures the textures, rhythms, and optimism of the early 1960s with astonishing clarity. Craig Wasson’s steady, empathetic narration makes the novel’s world feel lived in, turning what could have been just another sci-fi time-travel narrative into a deeply personal journey. This isn’t just one of King’s greatest late-career novels. It’s his most profoundly human one.
Customer Reviews
Good read, disappointing ending
A great audiobook and a very neat concept, but the ending makes it seem like it's all for not. Still recommended though, it was very enjoyable.
Amazing!
Great Alternate take on History!