11.22.63 - Hardcover

King, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 144472729X ISBN 13: 9781444727296

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011

Synopsis

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Review

The reader feels the benefit of 40 years of narrative craftsmanship and reflection on his nation's history. Going backwards proves to be another step forward for the most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature. (Mark Lawson, Guardian)

The pages of 11.22.63 fly by, filled with immediacy, pathos and suspense. It takes great brazenness to go anywhere near this subject matter. But it takes great skill to make this story even remotely credible. Mr. King makes it all look easy, which is surely his book's fanciest trick. (New York Times)

Stephen King at his epic, pedal-to-metal best (Alison Flood, Sunday Times)

not just an accomplished time-travel yarn but an action-heavy meditation on chance, choice and fate. (Independent Books of the Year)

The details of Fifties America, the cars, the clothes, the food, the televisions with wonky horizontal hold, are so vivid that you begin to wonder whether the author himself hasn't had access to a time machine.
...But as you worry at the paradoxes and the brilliantly explained pseudo science there is no denying that this monster yearn is blindingly impressive. Manly writers run out of steam as they get older. King, though, writes books that are ever longer and more demanding. I can't wait to see what he will tackle next.

(Daily Express)

Stephen King's new novel, 11.22.63, combines a variety of genres, being a JFK assassination, a story of time travel, a variation on the grail quest, a novel of voyeurism, a love story, a historical novel, a counter-factual historical novel and the chilling tale of a sinister animate universe, a form which can be traced back to the ghost stories of MR James. (London Review of Books)

The master of the pen has written yet another extraordinary novel. (Independent)

A wonderful book: page-turningly exciting, witty, wise, melancholic. But also utterly human, profoundly decent (Ashley Pharoah, co-writer and co-creator of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes)

Take King's hand and allow him to lead you into a past so vibrant and complete that you can almost taste it. But hold on tight, the Master of Horror has now become the Master of Time . . . Utterly enthralling, emotional and magical (Matthew Graham, co-writer and co-creator of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes)

Fine stories to take with us into the night. (Neil Gaiman on FULL DARK, NO STARS in the Guardian)

Book Description

A riveting, high-stakes political story like UNDER THE DOME, a love story like BAG OF BONES, a 1950s community like IT, Stephen King's incredibly ambitious, heartstoppingly dramatic time travel novel, 11.22.63 is a WHAT IF? story like no one's ever read before - a one thousand page tour de force.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 144472729X
• ISBN 13: 9781444727296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 752