11/22/63 : a novel / Stephen King.
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. -- Provided by dustjacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 1451627289 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9781451627282 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9781451627299 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1451627297 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: ix, 849 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | PART 1: Watershed Moment -- PART 2: The Janitor's Father -- PART 3: Living in the Past -- PART 4: Sadie and the General -- PART 5: 11/22/63 -- PART 6: The Green Card Man. |
Target Audience Note: | HL810L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader UG 5.4 42 42 148632 |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 > Assassination > Fiction. Time travel > Fiction. |
Genre: | Alternative histories (Fiction) |
Available copies
- 6 of 6 copies available at Lackawanna County Library System.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abington Community Library | FICTION KING (Text) | 50687011793919 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
Albright Memorial Library | FICTION KING (Text) | 50686014114891 | Storage | Available | - | ||
Dalton Community Library | FICTION KING (Text) | 50689010333713 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library | FICTION KING (Text) | 50686014114875 | Main Floor | Available | - | ||
North Pocono Public Library | FICTION KING (Text) | 50691010622350 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
Valley Community Library | FICTION KING (Text) | 50690010826045 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |