The past is not a passive memory; it is an obdurate, living force that actively resists being altered. When Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Maine, is shown a temporal "rabbit hole" in a local diner’s pantry, he is confronted with the ultimate ethical dilemma of the twentieth century. His mission, inherited from a dying friend, is to inhabit the past for five years to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It is a quest built on the premise that saving one man might steer a fractured world away from the tragedies of Vietnam and the civil unrest that followed.
However, the mechanics of this journey are governed by a set of rigid, unforgiving rules. Every time Jake steps through the portal, it is always September 9, 1958, at 11:58 a.m. Every trip resets the timeline enti...
The past is not a passive memory; it is an obdurate, living force that actively resists being altered. When Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Maine, is shown a temporal "rabbit hole" in a local diner’s pantry, he is confronted with the ultimate ethical dilemma of the twentieth century. His mission, inherited from a dying friend, is to inhabit the past for five years to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It is a quest built on the premise that saving one man might steer a fractured world away from the tragedies of Vietnam and the civil unrest that followed.
However, the mechanics of this journey are governed by a set of rigid, unforgiving rules. Every time Jake steps through the portal, it is always September 9, 1958, at 11:58 a.m. Every trip resets the timeline enti...
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Modern American literature has been profoundly shaped by a body of work that translates primal fears into the language of the everyday. Since the publication of his debut novel in 1974, this prolific author has moved beyond the constraints of genre fiction to examine the cultural...
37 books in catalog
Modern American literature has been profoundly shaped by a body of work that translates primal fears into the language of the everyday. Since the publication of his debut novel in 1974, this prolific author has moved beyond the constraints of genre fiction to examine the cultural...
