11.22.63: Stephen King

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At the wedding reception of the high school's librarian Mimi Corcoran (who is retiring), Jake meets Sadie Dunhill, the new librarian. 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. This is the special Signed collector's edition with a different dust jacket than the trade edition, King rides his way-back machine to re-visit JFK's assassination, one of 1,000 copies, with DVD.

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With a keen sense of humor and passion for coining vague ideas into state-of-the-art worded content, he ensures he puts everything he's got into making his work stand out. Mimi Corcoran Simmons ("Miz Mimi") The DCHS librarian who is Deke's girlfriend and briefly becomes his second wife, until her death from cancer. Independent King swiftly moves beyond vintage Americana to unfold a stunningly panoramic portrait of the era.Soon, Jake finds himself in a Lisbon Falls older than the one he knew; this makes Jake realize he was in the past. Though the FBI does not suspect him of being involved in the attempted assassination, one agent deduces that he was sent by someone to Texas, and tells him to leave before they can find out where he came from. and showing the darker side: segregation and the two doors and three signs - "Men" on one door, "Women" on the other door, and "Colored" leading to a plank of wood over a small stream.

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Leaving behind a world of computers and mobile phones, he goes back to a time of big American cars and diners, of Lindy Hopping, the sound of Elvis, and the taste of root beer. Commenting on the book as historical fiction, King said: "This might be a book where we really have a chance to get an audience who's not my ordinary audience. Book Marks reported 46% of critics gave the book a "rave" review, while 31% and 8% expressed "positive" and "mixed" impressions. Jake poses as a government agent and threatens de Mohrenschildt into ending his association with Oswald.

However, even that above statement is deceitful, because that's literally all I knew about this book going in, and it is SO much more. It is rare in the sense that so many other things- be it pacing, characters, language, setting, and relatability (to name a few)- all factor into its success. And his slow build-up of the sense of suspense and doom - think The Yellow Card Man (*) and jimla and the 'harmonizing past' - was just enough to keep me on the edge of my seat throughout the book.

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Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. 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 goes from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a world of Elvis and JFK, and of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. In love with his conceit – he has written a time-travel story in which a man can move between 2011 and 1958 at will – King has delivered a self-indulgent book that is too long (a whopping 740 pages), too complicated and too barmy for words.Woman's Day (Australia) A fascinating read that's like an episode of Dr Who, the book leaves you with more questions than answers. But, since it isn’t really horror, more historical fiction and alternative reality, I think that some people who have been shying away from King might greatly enjoy this. is a novel by American author Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F.