While it doesn’t come out until November 8th, Stephen King’s newest novel, titled 11/22/63, is already in the process of revving up the hype machine. Today brings us the dust jacket for the time-travel yarn, which shows us two possible headlines regarding the assassination (or attempted assassination) of John F. Kennedy. Just click on the image above to see a bigger version.
The synopsis: 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. 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. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. 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.
Yes, it’s King firmly in “Twilight Zone” territory, so could be something special. If you’re down with it already, pre-order 11/22/63 right HERE.
