His friend Al runs a local diner where prices are so cheap, they seem to be straight from the past. That was the challenge, but it was also the fun of the book."įictional high-school English teacher Jake Epping lives in Lisbon Falls, Maine - the same town where King went to high school. "A lot of the characters in 11/22 are real people. "There are so many actual happenings," King tells NPR's Audie Cornish. Writing this book was a departure for the science-fiction master. In 11/22/63, King tells the story of a small-town teacher who goes back in time to stop one of the watershed events of American history - the assassination of President John F. Stephen King's latest novel deals in horror - not the evil of monsters and supernatural beings, but the horror of a real national tragedy. Perhaps it was for the best: "I think that the wounds were a little bit too fresh then," King says. Stephen King came up with the idea for 11/22/63 in 1971, but at the time he wasn't ready to take on a project of such scope.
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