What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination.įollowing his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps listeners back in time to another moment-a real life moment-when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. In typical King fashion, the images he created with words were easy to “see.” I loved the book and thought “someone should make a movie of this, but it would have to be very long.” The Hulu series brought my mental images to life, but the book helped me understand the story." For a couple of weeks, my commute was dominated by this engaging and intricate story. I’m generally not a sci-fi, time-travel reader, but it was by Stephen King so I went for it. The audiobook seemed the perfect alternative. "I have the hardcover of this book at home, but knew I would never have the time to read it. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. In 2003, he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Stephen King is the author of more than fifty worldwide bestsellers. History may no longer be history, time travel has never been so plausible, and the past has never been so breathtakingly terrifying. From the small city of Derry, Maine, where the Dunning murders occurred, to the small Texas town of Jodie, where Jake falls precariously in love, all roads lead to Dallas, and to a disturbed loner by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald. Jake takes the name of George Amberson, and begins a new life in a world of Elvis and Ike and JFK, sock hops, cigarette smoke, and big American cars. Al recruits Jake to take over the mission that Al has become obsessed with-to change history by stopping the assassination of JFK. The storeroom in his restaurant is a door to the past-a specific moment in 1958. His life, like America's in 1963, and like Harry's, will never be the same. Reading the essay marks a turning point for Jake. When he assigns his students an essay about a life changing event, one student blows him away with the horrifying tale of the night more than 50 years ago when the father of Harry Dunning took a sledgehammer to his sister, brother and mother, killing them all. The story begins in Lisbon Falls, Maine, where 35 year old English teacher Jake Epping has a second job teaching GED classes.
In this brilliant, masterful novel, Stephen King – who represents the political, social and popular culture of his generation more thoroughly and with more imagination than any other author – takes readers and listeners on a remarkable odyssey into history and the possibility of changing it. On Novemthree shots rang out as President Kennedy rode through Dallas in his motorcade.
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