Hardcover, 740 pages

English language

Published Nov. 21, 2011 by Hodder & Stoughton.

ISBN:
978-1-4447-2729-6
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OCLC Number:
751748669

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4 stars (15 reviews)

Jake Epping is an English teacher in Lisbon falls, Maine, vv'ho makes extra money teaching in an adult education programme. One day, he receives an essay from one of his students — a harrowing first person story about the night, fifty years earlier. when Harry Dunning's fat her came home and killed Harry' mother. his sister. and his brother with a sledgehammer.

Later, Jake's friend A1. who runs the local diner. divulges an extraordinary 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.

Inspired by his desire to put things right for Harry Dunning, Jake leaves a world of iPods and mobile phones for a new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars, root beers and Lindy Hopping. It is a haunting world of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey …

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Review of '11/22/63' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This was very well written, with a delightfully mournful tone to it throughout and a resonance of an era long gone. I can't quite give it top billing, for although several friends raved about this title to me copiously and not without merit they are not time travel aficionados and perhaps because it's a genre at which I regularly work I found this merely very good rather than amazing.