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Book Description: WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless ...King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, 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.With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.It's such a pleasure to see a novelist like Stephen King being unafraid to take risks at this stage of his career. With Under the Dome and now 11.22.63, King is making a strong reputation for himself as a writer of sci-fi thrillers. In this book, a school teacher travels back in time to 1958 where he falls in love with a beautiful high school libarian and meets a disturbed young man named Lee Harvey Oswald. What if he could change history by stopping the assassination of JFK? This fast paced thriller is sure to have you biting your nails as King takes you on a masterful journey back in time in a 'what if?' scenario like no other. Reviewed by Mark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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