Mar 5th, 2012 by Lisa
April Pick: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
Our book club pick for April is 11/22/63 by Stephen King.
From Simon and Schuster: 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 story begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away—a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life—like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963—turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.
Purchase 11/22/63 at your favorite bookseller
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Copyright © 2013 ButteryBooks.com All Rights Reserved.
Buttery Books earns a small commission when you click and buy the products in this post.
Thank you for feeding our book addiction.
Yes! Enjoy the book, I absolutely loved it! Can’t wait to read your review; feel free to link up your review at The Stephen King Project (http://thestephenkingproject.blogspot.com)
Comment by Natalie ~ the Coffee and a Book Chick on March 8, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Glad to hear you liked 11/22/63. I will link it!
Comment by Lisa on March 11, 2012 at 11:25 am