11/22/63

Informationen zum Autor Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection  You Like It Darker ,  Holly  (a  New York Times  Notable Book of 2023),  Fairy Tale ,  Billy Summers ,  If It Bleeds ,  The Institute ,  Elevation ,  The Outsider ,  Sleeping Beauties  (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy:  End of Watch ,  Finders Keepers , and  Mr. Mercedes  (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel  11/22/63  was named a top ten book of 2011 by  The New York Times Book Review  and won the  Los Angeles Times  Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works  The Dark Tower ,  It ,  Pet Sematary ,  Doctor Sleep , and  Firestarter  are the basis for major motion pictures, with  It  now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.  Klappentext A riveting high stakes political story like Under the Dome, a love story like Bag of Bones, a 1950s community like IT, Stephen King's incredibly ambitious, heartstoppingly dramatic time travel novel, 11/22/63 is a WHAT IF novel like no one's ever read before--a one thousand page tour de force. Zusammenfassung Stephen King’s #1 bestselling time-travel novel—now a limited series on Hulu starring James Franco! On November 22! 1963! three shots rang out in Dallas! President Kennedy died! and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force! Stephen King—who has absorbed the social! political! and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Stephen King
• Publisher: Scribner USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9781451627282
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-2728-2
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 55 mm
• Series: Scribner
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage