On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy was killed, and the world changed.
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. First Look at James Franco in Stephen Kings 11.22.63. 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. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. He enlists Jake on an insane - and insanely possible - mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.
Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
He receives an essay from one of the students - a gruesome, harrowing first-person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program.
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