His most recent works include Full Dark No Stars, Blockade Billy, Under the Dome and Cell. Stephen King is the author of more than 50 books. "The past is obdurate," Jake quickly discovers as he careens from Maine to Florida to Louisiana to Texas. Clearly, it's a tall order, but the task turns out to be even more Herculean than it sounds. But he finds himself unable to deny Al's dying wish: that Jake travel back in time to Dallas to stop the assassination of President John F. Jake is understandably shocked when Al reveals that the restaurant's pantry contains a wormhole that transports anyone who steps through it directly to the year 1958. He's a regular patron at an unpopular retro-style diner and friends with its gruff but good-natured owner, Al, recently diagnosed with lung cancer. In King's new novel, Jake Epping, a Maine high school teacher, is slowly putting his life together after a divorce from his recovering alcoholic wife. Today, most of us have heard the term "butterfly effect." Or, as Stephen King puts it in 11/22/63, "Who can know when life hangs in the balance, or why?. rex travels to the past and back again, only to find that by accidentally stepping on a butterfly he has put into motion a chain of events that culminates in the election of a fascist president of the United States. In Ray Bradbury's seminal 1952 short story "A Sound of Thunder," a hunter with dreams of bagging a T. It's a question that has intrigued philosophers, historians and science-fiction writers for centuries: If you could travel back in time and stop a great atrocity, would you? Simple, right? If they thought it would prevent the Holocaust, who wouldn't jump at the chance to travel to early-1930s Germany and thwart Adolf Hitler?īut maybe it's not that simple. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title 11/22/63 Author Stephen King
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