Shelfology Book Pairing

A Novel 11/22/63

by Stephen King

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King's heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination-a thousand page tour de force. Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment-a real life moment-when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. 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. A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.

by Cormac McCarthy

« Le pêcheur s’apprêtait à partir lorsque quelqu’un dans la foule le prit par le coude. Salut, Suttree. Il se retourna. Salut, Joe, dit-il. Tu l’as vu, toi ? Non. Y paraît qu’il a sauté hier soir. On a retrouvé ses chaussures sur le pont. Ils restèrent là à regarder le mort. » Depuis sa sortie de prison, Cornelius Suttree subsiste sur les berges de la rivière Tennessee. Sa vie est une longue errance ponctuée de bagarres, d’alcool, de stratégies pour se nourrir ou pour éviter de retourner derrière les barreaux. Il croise des prédicateurs, des gamins voleurs, des âmes perdues livrées à elles-mêmes, comme lui. Violent et poétique, ce roman est un des livres majeurs de la littérature américaine. Cormac McCarthy est l’auteur de nombreux romans dont Méridien de sang, Le Grand Passage, No Country for Old Men, et La Route, consacré par le prix Pulitzer en 2007. Ses deux derniers livres, Le Passager et Stella Maris ont créé l’événement dans le monde entier. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Guillemette Belleteste et Isabelle Reinharez.