The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Shipping 11.22.63 By Stephen King - Pre-Loved Paperback - Ex-Library Book AnneMadeAustralia (248) 10.50 Stephen King Fridge Magnets & Frame: Under The Dome 11/22/63 Wind Through the Keyhole Doctor Sleep Joyland Mercedes Finders Keepers Revival Enjoymagnets (1) 3. This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.Ĭopyright © 2011 NPR. Alan Cheuse teaches writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. RAZ: The book is called '11/22/63' by Stephen King. If I could go back in time, I wouldn't have him change a single page. King wrote this extremely long book between 01/09 and 12/10. The combination of King's love of the '50s and his deeper search into the Kennedy assassination make this novel a terrifically entertaining work of fiction. And he discovers time and again just how the past fights back against his plans to change it. There, he falls in love with southern small town life, with his students and with a new librarian named Sadie. Jake then heads to Texas to prepare for 11/22/63, taking a job at a rural high school outside of Dallas. Jake tests his powers to alter the future by shooting the murderous father of a janitor from his high school, knowing that this will save the family from immediate death and destruction at the hands of this monster. Life in the past gets complicated almost immediately, though. And as silly as it sounds, King makes it work that there's a portal back to that year in the back room of the teacher's favorite local deli.Įpping lays plans to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald and thus save President Kennedy and the world from terrible things. Our reviewer, Alan Cheuse, is glad King took it up.ĪLAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: Steven King has written a time travel novel about a Maine high school English teacher named Jake Epping who travels back to 1958. Kennedy, a what-if science fiction take on a subject that's been tackled over and over again by historians. It's about the assassination of President John F.

His newest effort, though, has loftier ambitions. Stephen King could probably turn a book about paint drying into a bestseller.

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