King’s books have a far stronger real-world component than they used to, even when he deals with premises rooted in science fiction. Even in a book that leapfrogs back and forth across four decades, chronology can’t be suspenseful if it doesn’t make sense. And he needs to make these developments gradual, plausible and even sequential. King also needs a way of moving Jake from Maine to Texas and putting him close to the Oswald family. So he needs to concoct a reason why Jake Epping, a nice Maine schoolteacher who is 35 years old in 2011, would want to live through events that occurred long before he was born. King predicates “11/22/63” on the idea of time travel. By the way, he thinks it a near-certainty that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. King’s narrative tactics as to discover his opinions about conspiracy theories. He makes alternative history work - but how? It’s at least as interesting to examine Mr. King pulls off a sustained high-wire act of storytelling trickery. On the 849 pages between those covers, Mr. Its rear cover presents the opposite outcome, with the president and first lady looking happy and unscathed.
The book’s front cover depicts a newspaper account of Kennedy’s death in Dallas on that date.
Stephen King’s latest magnum opus, “11/22/63,” finds a way to revisit and even revise the events surrounding the assassination of President John F.
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