Author: Stephen King
Reading Level: Adult
Release Date: November 8th 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Group
Today on twitter Simon & Schuster annouced the cover reveal for Stephen King's next book due out this fall. All I can say is WOW. Its one of those covers that will affect many who come across it. When you get this book be ready to sit for a while, its nearly going to be 1000 pages long.
Summary: (from goodreads) On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed.
If you had the chance to change history, would you?
Would the consequences be worth it?
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.
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The cover says a lot, namely terrific! I am looking forward to reading Stephen King's take on the assassination!
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