The next Book Club meeting will be on Wednesday, August 1 at Tara's house.
From the Publisher:
Dallas, 11/22/63: Three shots ring out.
President John F. Kennedy is dead.
Life can turn on a dime—or
stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high
school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED
students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor
Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s
sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away . . .
but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al,
owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has
become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By
stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of
Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke. . .
. Finding himself in warmhearted Jolie, Texas, Jake begins a new life.
But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey
Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten . . . and become
heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
In Stephen King’s “most ambitious and accomplished” (NPR) novel, time travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.
One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2011
