11/22/63

By Stephen King

Subjects: Fiction, alternative history, Alternative histories (Fiction), nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2011-11-27, Reading Level-Grade 12, Large type books, New York Times bestseller, Reading Level-Grade 9, Time travel, Romans, nouvelles, Uchronie (Genre littéraire), Alternative histories (Fiction), American, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 7, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Romans en novellen ; vertaald, Assassination, Reading Level-Grade 11, Voyages dans le temps, Reading Level-Grade 10

Description: 11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveller who attempts to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the novel's titular date). It is the 60th book published by Stephen King, his 49th novel and the 42nd under his own name. The novel was announced on King's official site on March 2, 2011. A short excerpt was released online on June 1, 2011, and another excerpt was published in the October 28, 2011, issue of Entertainment Weekly. The novel was published on November 8, 2011 and quickly became a number-one bestseller. It stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 16 weeks. 11/22/63 won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the 2012 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel[8] and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.