The Man Who Turned Into Himself
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Rick Hamilton has the perfect life; a great career, a wonderful son and a beautiful wife. Until one day, everything changes. Something - a premonition? A terrifying fantasy? - happens to Rick. Who is the man in the horrifying fatal car crash? Why is his wife crying at the scene? Who is the man she is calling Richard? And why does she deny they have a son? Rick Hamilton has become trapped in a terrible, strange new life, in which nothing will ever quite make sense . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This unimpressive fiction debut uses theoretical physics to explain the fantastical events it describes. Rick Hamilton, publisher of a small journal based in Connecticut, has a premonition of his wife's death in a car crash. He rushes out of an important business meeting and speeds to the scene of the accident without questioning how he knows where to go. But he is too late; seeing his wife die, he blacks out and awakens to an altered reality-- he is being pulled from the wreckage of the car as his wife looks on. Rick, as it turns out, is trapped inside the body of Richard A. Hamilton, his counterpart in our universe. (Among other differences in Rick's parallel universe, John F. Kennedy, Bobby and Marilyn Monroe are all alive). Soon, with the help of a blind psychiatrist, Rick formulates a plan to use hypnosis to send him ``home.'' Though the writing is glossy and efficient, Hollywood screenwriter Ambrose seems uncomfortable working in narrative prose. Seeking to move the action along, he often succumbs to awkward techniques--letters, tape transcripts and monologues--that could come straight out of a theater's one-man show. And for all its fancy quantum mechanical explanations, the plot is unconvincing and predictable. Movie rights to HBO.
Customer Reviews
Loved it !!
Thought this was a great tale
Fascinating
Don't read the reviews - they give too much away. I read this book knowing nothing about the plot and loved it. Plenty of twists and turns and with a great sci fi edge!
Great read
Picked this up as a freebie from Starbucks and so very glad I did. It's one of those novels that could easily go un-noticed by most readers. Relatively short, It's a captivating read thought there are several instances where one is forced to flick back a page to ensure you haven't just skipped an entire chapter by mistake (difficult to do on an E reader but the compulsion remains all the same). I would encourage you to not read too many reviews, as the real joy in this novel is where Ambrose takes you by surprise, and if you have an inclining of the twists then some of the pleasure will have gone. I'm not convinced its Sci-Fi in the truest sense of the genre - it's more like good old thought provoking fiction.
Ambrose has earned himself a place in my list of favourite authors and I look forward to reading his other work.