11/22/63 Read By Stephen King
| Title | : | 11/22/63 |
| Author | : | Stephen King |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 849 pages |
| ISBN | : | 1451627297 |
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 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 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 The following is the Library of Congress 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 This is the full sized trade paperback, nearly identical to the first hardback edition The back of the dust jacket from the hardcover edition, became page one on this full sized trade paperback
about Author
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father s family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, M Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father s family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support After Stephen s grandparents passed away, Mrs King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966 From his sopho year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate He came to support the anti war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional He graduated in 1970, with a B.A in English and qualified to teach on the high school level A draft board examination immediately post graduation found him 4 F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students they married in January of 1971 As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men s magazines.Stephen made his first professional short story sale The Glass Floor to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967 Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men s magazines Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels 
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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 f
849 pagesStephen King
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