11/22/63: A Novel

Marc Notes: Includes discussion questions and author interview. Publisher Marketing: Now in trade paperback, acclaimed author and Master of Horror Stephen King's #1 bestselling time travel novel," " winner of the 2011 "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and praised by "USA TODAY" as "extraordinary." WINNER OF THE 2012 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE In Stephen King's "most ambitious and accomplished" (NPR) and "extraordinary" ("USA TODAY") #1 "New York Times" bestselling novel, time travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying. 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 more 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. Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 08/03/2012 pg. 79 (EAN 9781451627299, Paperback) New York Times Book Review 07/29/2012 pg. 24 (EAN 9781451627299, Paperback) People Weekly 09/10/2012 pg. 49 (EAN 9781451627299, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 545 (EAN 9781451627299, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 545 (EAN 9781442344297, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 545 (EAN 9781451627305, Other) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 545 (EAN 9781451651645, Other) Library Journal 02/01/2012 pg. 39 (EAN 9781442344303, MP3 CD) Publishers Weekly 01/02/2012 (EAN 9781442344280, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Booklist Editors Choice/Media 01/01/2013 pg. 15 (EAN 9781442344280, Compact Disc) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 545 (EAN 9781442344280, Compact Disc) Library Journal 06/15/2011 pg. 59 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Library Journal 09/15/2011 pg. 69 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Booklist 09/15/2011 pg. 32 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 09/19/2011 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2011 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Entertainment Weekly 10/28/2011 pg. 43 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) People Weekly 11/21/2011 pg. 49 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 11/08/2011 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 10/25/2011 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Kirkus Best Books 11/15/2011 pg. 2065 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 12/02/2011 pg. 83 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 11/13/2011 pg. 12 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 11/20/2011 pg. 30 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/04/2011 pg. 24 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 01/13/2012 pg. 85 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 07/27/2012 pg. 73 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2012 pg. 48 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 545 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Bookpage 11/01/2011 (EAN 9781451627282, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  King, Stephen Stephen King has written more than forty books and two hundred short stories. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker awards, and the O. Henry Award for his story "The Man in the Black Suit."