11/22/63

A #1 New York Times bestseller, A Globe and Mail bestseller -- Stephen King is one of the world's most successful writers, with more than 350 million copies of his books in print. Many of his books have been adapted into feature films, television movies and comic books. As of 2011, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine. Jake Epping is a high school English teacher who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students -- a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer.