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Jake Epping es profesor de inglés en una pequeña ciudad de Maine. Un día, uno de estos estudiantes adultos escribe una redacción que le deja impactado. El tema que les había propuesto era «El día que cambió mi vida» y en ella Harry Dunning cuenta lo que ocurrió la noche en que su padre volvió borracho a casa y mató a golpes de martillo a su madre, a su hermano y a su hermana. Harry logró salvarse. Poco después, Al, amigo de Jake y propietario del dinner del barrio, le revela un gran secreto: en su almacén ha encontrado una puerta que conduce al año 1958. Al le ruega a Jake que viaje en el tiempo para cumplir una misión demencial: impedir el asesinato de Kennedy. Jake conseguirá trasladarse al año 1958 para comenzar una nueva vida con una nueva identidad y esperar el año del asesinato. Volverá a la época de Elvis y los Cadillac, se enamorará de la guapa bibliotecaria Sadie Dunhill, buscará a Lee Harvey Oswald, el supuesto asesino de Kennedy, y a la familia de su alumno Harry Dunning para evitar su tragedia.Jake sabe que cuando vuelva a su tiempo solamente habrán pasado dos minutos en su mundo, pero, ¿qué otros cambios habrán provocado sus acciones? ¿Y cómo va a dejar atrás en el pasado a la mujer de su vida? ( ) My first Stephen King and definitely not my last! The 734 pages simply flew past as I devoured the stories within stories, ‘reset’ stories and the world of Lee Harvey Oswald. English teacher Jake Epping leaves Lisbon Falls, Maine 2011 behind to travel back in time to Tuesday September 9th 1958 via a rabbit hole in Al’s diner. Assuming the identity of George T Amberson he’s on a mission to change the course of history and prevent the assassination of John F Kennedy where Al had failed. The vivid descriptions of the cars, music, fashions, folk and their vernacular conjured up Fifties/Sixties America perfectly - albeit through a haze of cigarette smoke! The opening bars of “In the Mood”, the Lisbon High production of “Of Mice and Men” and Jake’s love affair with Sadie Underhill had me welling up while the Derry massacre, mentally deranged John Clayton and the mob added anticipated horror, menace and gore. Stephen King’s extensive research truly pays off in bringing the undercurrents of Texas in 1963 and events preceding the assassination to life. Immersive, moving, shocking. Suspense, conspiracy, intrigue. Loved it! “A truly compulsive, addictive novel … The master storyteller in truly masterful form”. Top tier ending!! The last 100 or so pages were phenomenal. I never expected Jake and Sadie's relationship to elicit such emotion out of me. The character development in this book is incredible as well. I expected the book to focus more on the time-travel and JFK element, but the true thrill were the people and relationships (Jake, Sadie, Deke, Ellie, Silent Mike, Marina/June/Lee, Yellow/Orchard/Orange/Black card man, etc.).
It all adds up to one of the best time-travel stories since H. G. Wells. King has captured something wonderful. Could it be the bottomlessness of reality? The closer you get to history, the more mysterious it becomes. He has written a deeply romantic and pessimistic book. It’s romantic about the real possibility of love, and pessimistic about everything else. Has the adaptationAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. 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 fifty 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. No library descriptions found. |
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