11/22/63

Resource Information

The work 11/22/63 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

11/22/63

Statement of responsibility

Stephen King

Title variation

Eleven twenty-two sixty-three

Creator

• King, Stephen, 1947-

Subject

• Large type books
• Time travel -- Fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)

Genre

• Large type books
• Fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)

Language

eng

Summary

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 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 enlisted 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 Sandie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life -- a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time

Member of

• Thorndike Press large print core series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3561.I483

LC item number

A615 2011b

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print core