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11/22/63 : a novel, Stephen King

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Summary
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a 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. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life, a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
ix, 849 pages
Contents
  • Watershed moment
  • The janitor's father
  • Living in the past
  • Sadie and the general
  • 11/22/63
  • The green card man
Isbn
9781451627282
Instance
Label
11/22/63 : a novel
Title
11/22/63
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Stephen King
Title variation
Eleven twenty-two sixty-three
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a 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. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life, a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time
Storyline
Pace
Tone
Writing style
Character
Award
  • Goodreads Choice Award, 2011.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery or Thriller, 2011.
  • New York Times Notable Book, 2011.
  • Thriller Award for Best Novel, 2012.
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10011639
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1947-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
King, Stephen
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
HL 810
Intended audience source
Lexile
Interest level
UG
Literary form
novels
Reading level
5.4
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
Study program name
Accelerated Reader AR
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Kennedy, John F.
  • Time travel
Label
11/22/63 : a novel, Stephen King
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Watershed moment -- The janitor's father -- Living in the past -- Sadie and the general -- 11/22/63 -- The green card man
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
ix, 849 pages
Isbn
9781451627282
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Lccn
2011025874
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocn706026997
  • (OCoLC)706026997
  • 249361
  • 314862
Label
11/22/63 : a novel, Stephen King
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Watershed moment -- The janitor's father -- Living in the past -- Sadie and the general -- 11/22/63 -- The green card man
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
ix, 849 pages
Isbn
9781451627282
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Lccn
2011025874
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocn706026997
  • (OCoLC)706026997
  • 249361
  • 314862

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