by Stephen King
Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
First published 2011
Maine schoolteacher Jake Epping is recruited by his friend to travel back in time and prevent the Kennedy assassination. Transported to 1958, Jake must navigate the cultural landscape, befriend the loner Lee Harvey Oswald, and fall for a beautiful librarian, all while the clock ticks closer to that fateful day in Dallas. Can one man change the course of history and avert a national tragedy?
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, adventure, action, 21st-century, alternate-history
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: changing-the-past, fish-out-of-water
Setting: Dallas, Lisbon Falls, Maine, Al's Diner, Lisbon Falls High School, Denholm Consolidated High School, Jodie, Texas, Savannah, Georgia, The Soviet Union, Texas School Book Depository
Period: 1958-1963, 2011
880 pages · Paperback · Scribner