WINNER OF
THE 2012 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
Dallas,
11/22/63: Three shots ring out.
President
John F. Kennedy is dead.
Life can
turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a
high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED
students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry
Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer
slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away . . . but an even more bizarre
secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists
Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the
Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s
storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops,
and cigarette smoke. . . . Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake
begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee
Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten . . . and become
heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
In Stephen
King’s “most ambitious and accomplished” (NPR) novel, time travel has never
been so believable. Or so terrifying.
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