11.22.63 by Stephen King [BOOKSHELF WEAR][S1-T01-01]

Format: Paperback

Condition: New but minor bookshelf wear

Genre: Historical Fiction

Literary Awards: Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2012), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012), ITW Thriller Award for Best Hard Cover Novel (2012), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger (2014), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012) ...more

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a 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. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, 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.