11.22.63

“The details of Fifties America, the cars, the clothes, the food, the televisions with wonky horizontal hold, are so vivid that you begin to wonder whether the author himself hasn’t had access to a time machine … But as you worry at the paradoxes and the brilliantly explained pseudo science there is no denying that this monster yearn is blindingly impressive.” ― Daily Express

“You have to take a leap of faith with time-travel novels, but if there’s one writer who can pull it off, it’s Stephen King … Captivating, surprisingly pacy and free from sci-fi cliche, it’s no wonder the film version is already being planned.” ― Shortlist

“This is the American of Stephen King’s childhood and it’s one that he re-creates in vivid and loving detail … This is a truly compulsive, addictive novel not just about time-travel or the Kennedy assassination but about recent American history and its might-have-beens, about love, and about how life ‘turns on a dime’. It’s a thunking 700-pager which left me only wanting more. The master storyteller in truly masterful form.” ― Daily Mail

“King swiftly moves beyond vintage Americana to unfold a stunningly panoramic portrait of the era. His [King’s] fascination with evil … arranges characters among clear mortal frontiers that fell meaningful rather than simplistic. King commands an inordinately fat space on the bookshelf with 11.22.63 but it’s hard to begrudge when his vast imagination is working across such an epic canvas.” ― Seven, The Sunday Telegraph

“Stephen King is up there with the best. It’s a thriller, a meditation on late Fifties and early Sixties America and a love story. It creates a world you can lose yourself in.” ― Peter Robinson in the Sunday Express

“One of the strengths of the book is King’s at once nostalgic and honest view of the end of the Eisenhower era. King manages to avoid both sentimentalizing the past and treating it with massive condescension; his role as the poet of American brand-names serves him well here.” ― Independent

“11.22.63 marks a definite maturing of literary command and ambition. The key to any novel set in an alternate reality is credible world building, the steady accumulation of detail – preferably lightly distributed – that brings the story alive. King succeeds in this, partly drawing from his own memories.” ― Adam LeBor FT Weekend

“King’s mastery of plot and his ability to create characters and situations both homespun and far-fetched means that this is the book you dream of getting stuck on the train home with.” ― Independent on Sunday