Hachette 11.22.63
Also now a TV adaptation produced by JJ Abrams and Stephen King himself, starring James Franco across Hulu, Fox, Stan, and SKY platforms worldwide. The central question is a simple but intoxicating one: if you could travel back through time and prevent one of history's most shattering moments, would you? That's the burden placed on Jake Epping, an ordinary high school English teacher from Maine who finds himself yanked from the smartphone-cluttered present of 2011 into the vivid, churning America of 1958. It's a world of Plymouth Furys and Lindy Hop, of Elvis on the radio and JFK very much still alive. Short sentences can't contain what King builds here. The novel sprawls gloriously across years and social textures, weaving together the political anxieties and pop-cultural heartbeat of post-war America into something that feels genuinely alive. Along the way, Jake crosses paths with a young, unsettled Lee Harvey Oswald, and falls for Sadie Dunhill, a librarian whose presence transforms what might have been a thriller into something far more tender and complicated. King draws on his deep affection for that baby-boom generation to ground every scene in specific, convincing detail, and the suspense builds with real patience and skill. It's a long book, but it earns every page.
- Author: Stephen King
- Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-1444727333
- Pages: 752 pages