I came awake with a jerk, hearing someone mutter “Still not too late” under his breath. As the tenth grew closer, those weekends with Sadie had become the most important, the dearest, things in my life. Marina took the famous pictures of him holding it just outside my living room window six days later, but I didn’t see it. Five minutes after he climbed the outside stairs to the second floor, the gun Lee would use to change history was in a closet above my head. I knew what was in the package: a 6.5mm Carcano rifle-also known as a Mannlicher-Carcano-complete with scope, purchased from Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago. For the first time I thought he seemed furtive and nervous, actually looking around at his exterior surroundings instead of at the spooky furniture deep in his head. Peering through a tiny crack in the curtains, I could see the words REGISTERED and INSURED stamped on it in big red letters. On Monday, March 25, Lee came walking up Neely Street carrying a long package wrapped in brown paper. Time-travel has never been so believable. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there’s Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession-to prevent the Kennedy assassination. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958.
Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life-like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963-turning on a dime. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away-a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King-who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer-takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review
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