Replay
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- CHF 6.00
Beschreibung des Verlags
"One of the most elegant and moving time travels stories ever written" - Ernest Cline
"...exciting and thought-provoking" - Kat Hooper, Fantasy Literature
"I did not go into this book with high expectations ... I just finished it and I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!" - Goodreads Reviewer
At forty-three Jeff Winston is stuck in a rut. He hopes for better things, for some happiness, maybe tomorrow...
A sudden, fatal heart attack changes everything, and he wakes to find he's eighteen-years-old, again... and again... and again... Jeff embarks on a continuous twenty-five-year cycle - complete with memories from each previous iteration - looking to find what he craves for in life, and in love.
A novel of gripping adventure and romance, and a fascinating speculation on the nature of time. Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this intriguing fantasy adventure, Jeff Winston, a failing 43-year-old radio journalist, dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact. He views the future from the perspective of naive 1963: "null-eyed punks in leather and chains . . . death-beams in orbit around the polluted, choking earth . . . his world sounded like the most nightmarish of science fiction.'' But Grimwood has transcended genre with this carefully observed, literate and original story. Jeff's knowledge soon becomes as much a curse as a blessing. After recovering from the shock (is the future a dream, or is it real life?), he plays out missed choices. In one life, for example, he falls in love with Pamela, a housewife who died nine minutes after Jeff; they try to warn the world of the disasters it faces, coming in conflict with the government and history. A third replayer turns out to be a serial killer, murdering the same people over and over. Jeff and Pamela are still searching for some missing part of their lives when they notice they are returning closer and closer to the time of their deaths, and realize that the replays and their times together may be coming to an end. 60,000 first printing; 75,000 ad/promo; film rights to United Artists; Literary Guild selection.
