11.22.63

740 pages

English language

Published Oct. 18, 2011

ISBN:
9781444727296

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5 stars (2 reviews)

Jake Epping is an English teacher in Lisbon falls, Maine, vv'ho makes extra money teaching in an adult education programme. One day, he receives an essay from one of his students — a harrowing first person story about the night, fifty years earlier. when Harry Dunning's fat her came home and killed Harry' mother. his sister. and his brother with a sledgehammer.

Later, Jake's friend A1. who runs the local diner. divulges an extraordinary secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane - and insanely possible - mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Inspired by his desire to put things right for Harry Dunning, Jake leaves a world of iPods and mobile phones for a new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars, root beers and Lindy Hopping. It is a haunting world of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey …

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5 stars

This is not my review but my take on the novel.
Amazing story of time travel, goodness, love, victory, dedication, bravery and alternate history. King tries to show the reader how implausible time travel is, and that what we are is way better than what it could be.
I loved the way he portrayed Sadie, but the end where she is eighty years old and Jack Epping dances one last time is a classic romantic ending. I was happy he did it that way. Deke was a man in his sixties, the head master of DCHS(Donholm County High School) and Mizz Mimi was his lover. She had lung cancer and died after attempting an experimental cure in Mexico. Jack as George became more involved with reality that he ever was in his original persona.
The events leading up to the dreaded day, where he killed a father who would've massacred …

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