Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime
Achievement Award One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times
Book Review Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Now a
miniseries from 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster Audio
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2011 |
| First published: |
November 2011 |
| Authors: |
Stephen King
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| Readers: |
Craig Wasson
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| Dimensions: |
152 x 130 x 66mm (L x W x H) |
| Format: |
Standard format
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| Disks: |
30 |
| Pages: |
30 |
| Running time: |
1860 minutes |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4423-4428-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4423-4428-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781442344280 |
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