It's romantic about the real possibility of love, and pessimistic about everything else.Įrrol Morris - New York Times Book ReviewĪ tale richly layered with the pleasures we've come to expect: characters of good heart and wounded lives, whose adventures into the fantastic are made plausible because they are anchored in reality, in the conversations and sense of place that take us effortlessly into the story…We are…reminded again that in Stephen King, we have proof that (as JFK himself once put it) 'life is unfair.' He is not only as famous and wealthy a writer as any of his time his work suggests that if a time traveler found a portal to the 22nd century and looked for the authors of today still being read tomorrow, Stephen King would be one of them. He has written a deeply romantic and pessimistic book. Could it be the bottomlessness of reality? The closer you get to history, the more mysterious it becomes. It's a blunderbuss of a book, rife with answers to questions: Can one man make a difference? Can history be changed, or does it snap back on itself like a rubber band? Does love conquer all? (The big stuff)…It all adds up to one of the best time-travel stories since H. King makes it all look easy, which is surely his book's fanciest trick.ġ1/22/63 is a meditation on memory, love, loss, free will and necessity. But it takes great skill to make this story even remotely credible. It takes great brazenness to go anywhere near this subject matter. King pulls off a sustained high-wire act of storytelling trickery…The pages of 11/22/63 fly by, filled with immediacy, pathos and suspense.

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