11/22/63: A Novel Audiobook (Free)
- Craig Wasson
- 31 h 0 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2011-11-08
Summary:
One of the Ten Best Books of THE BRAND NEW York Times Reserve Review
Winner from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Right now a miniseries from Hulu starring Wayne Franco
ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AS WELL AS THE Globe CHANGED. IMAGINE IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT OUT BACK?
With this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King-who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than some other writer-takes readers about 11/22/63: A Novel on an unbelievable journey into the past and the chance of altering it.
It starts with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English instructor in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra cash teaching GED classes. He asks his students to create about a meeting that transformed their lives, and one essay blows him away-a gruesome, harrowing tale about the night time a lot more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came house and wiped out his mom, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the article is certainly a watershed minute for Jake, his life-like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963-turning on a dime. Very little afterwards his friend Al, who has the neighborhood diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom can be a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has been his obsession-to avoid the Kennedy assassination.
So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, inside a different globe of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and tobacco smoke everywhere. Through the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), towards the warmhearted little town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, obviously, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald also to Dallas, where in fact the recent becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where background may not be history any more. Time-travel hasn’t been so believable. Or so terrifying.
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