New Stephen King Novel 11/22/63 Announced

Simon & Schuster has just announced that a new Stephen King novel, 11/22/63, will be released on November 8th, 2011 and will focus on someone going back in time to try to prevent the death of JFK:

"Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, 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 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time."

The novel is approximately 1000 pages and is already available for pre-order on a number of online sites such as Amazon.com. A landing page for the novel has been set up on the official Stephen King website which will be updated periodically with new information.