Stephen King’s 11/22/63 Gets an Enhanced eBook Edition

News comes from Lilja's Library that Simon & Schuster will be releasing an enhanced eBook edition of Stephen King's 11/22/63. On top of the digital version of the novel, it will also include a 13-minute film, written and narrated by Stephen King, "that will take you back--as King's novel does--to Kennedy era America".

11/22/63 will be available on November 8th as a hardcover, as well as an eBook and audiobook. The film rights to 11/22/63 have also recently been acquired by director/writer Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), with the intention of it being his next film.

“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.”