11/22/63 epub by Stephen King
Life can activate a dime-or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English instructor in a Maine town. Whereas grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a grotesque, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry by some means survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his total family. Jake is blown away . . . but an much more weird secret involves mild when Jake’s friend Al, proprietor of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has turn out to be his obsession-to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping by way of a portal within the diner’s storeroom, and into the period of Ike and Elvis, of massive American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke. . . . Finding himself in warmhearted Jolie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the street result in a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of historical past is about to be rewritten . . . and turn out to be heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
"eleven/22/63", STEPHEN KING's newest, may just be his greatest. Seriously. Not less than so far as "mainstream" fiction or "literature" goes. Yes, it's constructed around a effectively-used SF trope, time journey, however really, the portal to the previous that Jake Epping is shown in the back of an aluminum diner is simply the launch mechanism for this unbelievable journey. There are not any monsters right here, at the least none that are not human and little or no horror in the supernatural sense that KIng's constant readers have come to know, love and expect. Even SK's other "straight" fiction, "Distress", "Dolores Claiborne" and "The Lady Who Loved Tom Gordon" come to thoughts, had components of the supernatural and/or flat-out horror. Not this time.
However that does not imply that eleven/22/sixty three is boring. Quite the contrary. Although it might seem that it might be robust to build suspense round a conclusion that seems to be inevitable, this turns out to not be the case.
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