I dag kom nyheten om at Stephen King lanserer ny bok i år; nærmere bestemt 8. november. I boken, som har fått tittelen 11/22/63 tar han for seg attentatet på president John F. Kennedy og stiller spørsmålet; ville du endret fortiden om du hadde anledning til det? Og hva ville i så fall konsekvensene av dette blitt?
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in
Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching in an adult
education programme. Not long after Jake has received 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 - 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
existence as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, 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.
With extraordinary imaginative power, King explores the culture of a
simpler era and weaves it into a devastating exercise in escalating
suspense.
(Sakset fra nettsiden til Hodder.co.uk)
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Jeg ligger litt etter i Stephen King - lesingen min, selv om jeg har som mål å få lest litt flere bøker av ham i år. Denne kan jeg i hvert fall ikke la gå fra meg, temaet er fascinerende og hvem kan mostå en roman som skildrer 1950 - tallet?
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