Jake Epping is a high school English teacher 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. 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.
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Straight up classic King. Meanders a bit as King's oeuvre does, with enough subplots and twists to keep anyone guessing.
Others have given more cogent synopses than I could or will, so I'll leave it at that.
Enjoyed this book a lot. It languished over a year in my TBR pile and I've just pulled it out and finished it since I have the flu. ;) Incidentally, despite being a HUGE whopper of a book with a gazillion subplots and story lines, I managed to hop right back into it after a LONG hiatus without a hiccup. That's quality.
