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Kennedy , which occurred on November 22, the novel's titular date. The novel was announced on King's official site on March 2, The novel required considerable research to accurately portray the late s and early s. It was really strange at first, like breaking in a new pair of shoes. The novel was adapted into a Hulu television series in , According to King, the idea for the novel first came to him in , [14] before the release of his first novel, Carrie He was going to title it Split Track.
However, he felt a historical novel required more research than he was willing to do at the time and greater literary talent than he possessed. King first talked publicly about the idea in Marvel Spotlight issue The Dark Tower January 27, , prior to the beginning of the ongoing comic book adaptation of his Dark Tower series. In a piece in the magazine titled "An Open Letter from Stephen King", he writes about possible original ideas for comics:.
I'd like to tell a time-travel story where this guy finds a diner that connects to So one day he goes back and just stays. Leaves his life behind. His goal? To get up to November 22, , and stop Lee Harvey Oswald. But when he goes back to '07, the world's a nuclear slag-heap.
Not good to fool with Father Time. So then he has to go back again and stop himself Commenting on the book as historical fiction, King said: "This might be a book where we really have a chance to get an audience who's not my ordinary audience. Instead of people who read horror stories, people who read The Help or People of the Book might like this book". King and longtime researcher Russ Dorr prepared for the novel by reading many historical documents and newspaper archives from the period, looking at clothing and appliance ads, sports scores, and television listings.
King and Dorr traveled to Dallas , where they visited Oswald 's apartment building now a private residence , found the home of Gen.
Johnson and the author of books about several presidents, and used some of her ideas of worst-case political scenarios that might occur in the absence of Kennedy's assassination.
The trade hardcover edition features a dust jacket that is a faux newspaper front page, with the front of the jacket featuring an article recounting the real historical event of Kennedy's assassination, and the back featuring an alternative history article speaking of the event as just a failed assassination attempt that Kennedy survives unscathed.
The newspaper headlines were written by Stephen King. Due to a website problem on November 8, most copies remained unsold and a drawing ran from November 10 to 11 to sell the remaining copies. There was also a limited edition of published in the United Kingdom. It was a slipcased hardcover with deluxe binding, photographic endpapers, and a facsimile signature, and included a DVD.
Epping gives an assignment to his adult students, asking them to write about a day that changed their lives. One of the students, a learning-impaired janitor named Harry Dunning, submits an assignment describing the night his alcoholic father murdered his mother and siblings with a hammer; the story emotionally affects Jake, and the two became friends after Harry earns his GED. Two years later, Jake is summoned by another friend, Al Templeton, the owner of a local diner.
When Jake arrives at the diner, he is shocked to discover that Al has become ill with terminal lung cancer , despite appearing perfectly healthy the night before. Al instructs Jake step into the back of the diner's pantry , where Jake finds a time slip leading to Lisbon Falls as it existed on September 9, After exploring the town, Jake returns to and learns that the portal leads to the same moment of the same day every time it is used, and that a visitor will always return to the present by a margin of two minutes.
Because the portal gives one the ability to alter the present by changing an event in the past, Al reveals that he had concocted a plan to prevent John F. Kennedy's assassination , hoping that doing so would stop the Vietnam War and change history for the better. He spent four years in the past after entering the portal the previous night, travelling to Dallas, Texas , to track Lee Harvey Oswald , plotting to kill the would-be assassin during his attempted murder of General Edwin Walker.
However, due to his cancer, Al is unable continue his mission. He recruits a reluctant Jake to complete it. As an experiment, Jake travels back to to save Harry's family, who will be killed by his father on Halloween night. Using the alias "George Amberson", Jake buys a car and travels to Harry's hometown of Derry, Maine , immediately disliking the place. Jake is able to find Harry's father, Frank Dunning, and track his movements.
After saving all but one of Harry's siblings from Frank's brutal assault, Jake returns to hopeful that he improved Harry's life Soon afterward, Al commits suicide. Resigned, Jake re-enters the portal, travels back to Derry, and kills Frank while he is visiting a cemetery.
After resolving one of Al's other missions—preventing a hunter from accidentally shooting a young girl—Jake makes his way, first to Florida, then to Texas to wait for Oswald's arrival. He eventually settles in Jodie, a town on the outskirts of Dallas, where he becomes a full-time English teacher at a local consolidated school.
Jake has a positive effect on the students of the school, and is respected in the town. At the wedding reception of the high school's librarian Mimi Corcoran who is retiring , Jake meets Sadie Dunhill, the new librarian.
Soon after, Mimi dies. Jake and Sadie are tasked with organizing a memorial assembly, bringing them closer together. Over time, Sadie and Jake fall in love and begin a relationship. Sadie reveals that her ex-husband, John Clayton, had many odd habits owing to his obsessive compulsive disorder and was emotionally distant. Meanwhile, Jake surveils Lee Harvey Oswald and his family, renting properties close to them and even installing microphones in their apartment.
He briefly interacts with Marina Oswald. In the notebook Al gave him, Al states that George de Mohrenschildt may have been involved in the attempted assassination of Edwin Walker.
After witnessing and listening to Oswald and de Mohrenschildt's interactions, Jake plans to stalk Lee on the date of the attempted assassination to see if de Mohrenschildt was present, but Clayton finds Sadie and holds her hostage.
He calls Jake and threatens to kill Sadie, slashing her cheek open while Jake is on the line. Jake arrives with Deke Simmons, the former principal of the high school and Mimi's husband, and saves Sadie from being killed, but Clayton cuts his throat in front of them.
Jake stays with Sadie in the hospital as she recuperates and as a result is not able to watch Lee as he attempts to kill Edwin Walker. As the date of the Kennedy assassination approaches, Jake gambles on a boxing match and wins, gaining the attention of local businessman Akiva Roth, who goes to Jake's house in Dallas with two associated and has them beat Jake nearly to death.
As a result, Jake loses his memories of Lee Harvey Oswald and spends weeks in the hospital and in a rehabilitation center. After remembering Al's notebook, he retrieves it and forms a plan to kill Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository on the day of the assassination.
He writes a letter to Sadie asking her not to try and find him for her safety. Sadie nevertheless finds him in Fort Worth and the two of them attempt to make it to Dallas in time. Along the way, they experience a bus accident and two car accidents, which Jake explains as the past trying to stop them. They make it to the Depository just in time and Oswald misses the first shot, causing him to be noticed by Secret Service members and shot to death.
However, he shoots Sadie in the process, and she dies in Jake's arms. In the following days, Jake is regarded as a national hero and is contacted by both John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy. Though the FBI does not suspect him of being involved in the assassination, one agent deduces that he was sent by someone to Texas, and tells him to leave before they can find out where he came from.
Jake goes back to Lisbon Falls and is met by "The Green Card Man" so called because he wears a green card in his hat , who tells him to go back to and see what he has done. Once in the future, Jake discovers that Earth has become a nuclear wasteland, and that natural disasters occur regularly.
Through a conversation with Harry Dunning, he finds out that many historical tragedies such as the Jonestown incident happened with an increased death toll, and the Civil Rights Act of was never passed. The planet is on the verge of collapse, and many countries are involved in nuclear wars. Jake goes back to the past, and is told by The Green Card Man that every trip causes another "string", an alternate reality with a different past and different future.
These strings overlap and eventually can cause reality to fall apart, as evidenced by what Jake saw when he returned to The Green Card Man says that he is part of a group of people who monitor time-slips, and who are often driven to insanity because of the many realities that are created when the someone travels to the past.
He instructs Jake to return to , allowing the future to return to normal. Jake instead stays in for some time, contemplating whether to warn Sadie about John Clayton or not. Jake eventually returns to the future, finding that it has returned to normal.
He moves out of Lisbon Falls and finds that Sadie is being celebrated as a "Citizen of the Century" in Jodie, and he goes to the party being held. Sadie, now in her eighties, spent the time between and doing charity work and served terms as mayor and in the Texas legislature, and is loved but the people of Jodie. Jake asks her to dance, and when she asks who he is, he responds "Someone you knew in another life, honey.
Stephen King published an alternate ending on his official website on January 24, , in which Jake finds a November news article where Sadie has turned She had married a man named Trevor Anderson, with whom she has five children, eleven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
This ending was changed to the published version at the suggestion of King's son, writer Joe Hill. Other historical characters depicted in the book include President John F.
Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy , who offer their gratitude to Jake during telephone calls following the assassination attempt. In the alternative timeline after the failed assassination, Kennedy is re-elected in and dies in Hillary Clinton is president when Jake discovers the dystopia of Legendary Texas musician Doug Sahm is portrayed as a young man playing with his band at the wedding reception for Deke and Mimi in Police Officer J. D Tippit is shown in Jake's hospital room after his attack, helping investigate.
Tippit was killed by Oswald following the assassination of Kennedy in the real world. NPR book critic Alan Cheuse found no fault with the structure, commenting: "I wouldn't have [King] change a single page. It takes great brazenness to go anywhere near this subject matter. But it takes great skill to make this story even remotely credible. King makes it all look easy, which is surely his book's fanciest trick.
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