• 11-22-63

  • A Novel
  • By: Stephen King
  • Narrated by: Craig Wasson
  • Length: 30 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (68,100 ratings)

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11-22-63

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Craig Wasson
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back?

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 listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.

It begins with Jake Epping, a 35-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. 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 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life - like Harry’s, like America’s in 1963 - turning on a dime.

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. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession - to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

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. 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. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.

©2011 Stephen King. All Rights Reserved. (P)2011 Simon & Schuster, Inc

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Editor's Pick: Best of the Decade

A nostalgic trip
"Stephen King’s 11.22.63 is a technicolor romp to the past where the root beer tastes better, cars have more class, and listeners are warned to beware the yellow card man. I was not alive in 1963, but after spending 30+ hours listening to narrator Craig Wasson bring these fictional (and real) characters brilliantly to life, I feel like while I didn’t live there, I’ve at least visited for a long weekend. Blending time travel, history, a little romance, and political intrigue, this is an oddly feel-good tale—odd because it's about assassination and comes from the king of horror. The thing is that King also just happens to be a masterful storyteller whose best work of the decade will warm your heart more than scare the hell out of you." — Tricia F., Audible Editor

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Couldn't stop listening.

1 of the best novels I have ever experienced. I flew through it. The narrator was wonderful as well.

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Wasson's performance is outstanding!

Craig Wasson gives one of the best performances I've heard in over 20 years listening to audiobooks. I loved 11/22/63 when I read it after the book's release, but Wasson made it even more enjoyable this time around!

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Awesome , fun, historical book

This was a great book with a lot of historic facts. I would have liked a liked a different ending

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Stephen king is the master.

Stephen King did an amazing job of combining a well known historical event and futuristic time travel. The fictional characters are three dimensional and realistic. The story flows nicely, while I hated to put it down each day it is written in such a way that there are peaks and valleys in the story and the action that allow you to. This isn't a criticism by any means, the valleys give you time to absorb the complexity of the tale SK has woven.
Great read, awesome concept, slightly disappointed toward the end BUT not with the ending per say.

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Great story, read well

I have long been a Steven King fan and this book did not disappoint. The story was a unique twist on time travel and involved attempting to prevent the assassination of JFK in November of 1963. As a high school student at the time, I can testify to the profound sadness that struck the nation in the wake of the assassination, making such an attempt plausible. I would highly recommend this book both for its suspenseful story and its retelling of this chapter of American history.

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SUPERB!!!

Great storytelling, great character performance!
The concept was well thought out and executed. a sci-fi thinker all the way through and an emotional roller coaster ride. enjoyed every minute!

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I loved this more then I thought I would!

I was very unsure about starting this book, but I'm so glad I did. The reader did very well and I fell in love with the characters and story instantly! Definitely a new favorite from King

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Great Story all the way through

While it took a while to get to the main story, it was worth the wait.

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Great Story

11.22.63 is a great story and as usual, way better than the Hulu show. Craig Wilson did an awesome job bringing the characters to life.

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Another knock out of the park!

Just when I think he can't get any better, I buy another Stephen King audible and he blows me away all over again. I'm a history buff, so I'm sure that helped but it had it all, some history, suspense, a love story. Loved it!

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