When English teacher Jake Epping discovers a portal to the past, he embarks on a mission to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As he immerses himself in the world of late 1950s and early 1960s America, he realizes that changing history comes with unexpected consequences. In Stephen King’s 11/22/63, love, destiny, and time collide—exploring whether the past can truly be altered without reshaping the future.
Date: 2011 (United States)
Length: ~849 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~5.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Science Fiction, Historical Fiction
""11/22/63" is a meditation on memory, love, loss, free will and necessity. It's a blunderbuss of a book... It all adds up to one of the best time-travel stories since H. G. Wells. King has captured something wonderful. He has written a deeply romantic and pessimistic book" — Errol Morris, American documentary filmmaker and critic
"One of King's best books in a long time... King smoothly blends... romance into the main story line" — The New York Times
"[King's] best novel in more than a decade" — Las Vegas Review-Journal, American newspaper
"[It] reminds us of what might have been—that is, almost certainly a better present than the one in which we live" — Kirkus Reviews
"High school English teacher Jake Epping has his work cut out for him in King's entertaining Science Fiction romantic thriller... Those folks [who claim Oswald acted alone] may have a problem with this suspenseful time-travel epic, but the rest of us will happily follow well-meaning, good-hearted Jake Epping... on his quixotic quest" — Jeff Greenfield, American journalist and author
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