Jake then heads to Texas to prepare for 11/22/63, taking a job at a rural high school outside of Dallas.
Jake tests his powers to alter the future by shooting the murderous father of a janitor from his high school, knowing that this will save the family from immediate death and destruction at the hands of this monster. Life in the past gets complicated almost immediately, though. And as silly as it sounds, King makes it work that there's a portal back to that year in the back room of the teacher's favorite local deli.Įpping lays plans to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald and thus save President Kennedy and the world from terrible things. Our reviewer, Alan Cheuse, is glad King took it up.ĪLAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: Steven King has written a time travel novel about a Maine high school English teacher named Jake Epping who travels back to 1958.
Kennedy, a what-if science fiction take on a subject that's been tackled over and over again by historians. It's about the assassination of President John F. His newest effort, though, has loftier ambitions. Stephen King could probably turn a book about paint drying into a bestseller.
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