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Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market. A novel of gripping adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time, Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?"
- Sales Rank: #549135 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Arbor House Pub Co
- Published on: 1987-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 310 pages
- 1988 winner of the World Fantasy Award
- a time-travel novel as haunting as Jack Finney's Time and Again
From 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.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The possibility of traveling back in time to relive one's life has long fascinated science fiction writers. Without a single gesture toward an explanation, this mainstream novel recounts the story of a man and a woman mysteriously given the ability to live their lives over. Each dies in 1988 only to awaken as a teenager in 1963 with adult knowledge and wisdom intact and the ability to make a new set of choices. Different spouses, lovers, children, careers, await them in each go-round of the past 25 years, as well as slightly altered versions of world events. Their deep commitment to one another continues through the centuries of their many lifetimes. This delightful and completely engrossing story will appeal to a wide variety of readers. Literary Guild selection. Marcia R. Hoffman, M.L.S., American Hoechst Corp., Somerville,
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Dufris's skilled delivery of the fantasy of reliving one's life has just the right tone of wise hindsight." ---AudioFile
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
If it were written today he would spend all his lives binge-watching TV and getting into arguments on social media
By Michael Battaglia
What if you could live your life over again, but without the benefit of being Bill Murray? That's the dilemma that Jeff Winston winds up facing here. When we first meet him he's in his mid-forties, stuck in a job that he doesn't seem to find as fulfilling as he used to and his marriage isn't so much unraveling as ossifying, old arguments turning into a very solid resentment that will probably last for the rest of their lives. Jeff is primed for a mid-life crisis of sorts, but instead of getting a hot young girlfriend or a new car, he gets something entirely different: a massive fatal heart attack. And that's how we start.
But as you can probably tell since the book is called "Replay" and not "All the Bad Decisions I Don't Remember Making Eventually Haunt Me", Grimwood isn't so much interested in how we get here as much as what happens afterwards. And in this case, Jeff dies and wakes up . . . in 1963, with the body of his eighteen year old self and all the memories of his life from that point until he dies in the late eighties. At a loss for what to do, Jeff does what anyone else would probably do in the same situation: massively bet on the outcomes of future sports events to secure himself vast amounts of wealth and set himself up for a comfortable existence (if nothing else, this teaches me to pay more attention to who wins the World Series, as you really never know when it might come in handy) then making shrewd investments in companies that he knows will do well in the future. All is going swell, he's living his life almost exactly as he's envisioned it.
Then he reaches the eighties and dies again. Thus a slight snag in the plan appears.
And so it goes for this latter day Billy Pilgrim, who isn't so much unstuck in time as ricocheting back and forth like a rubber ball in the middle of two metronomes. Beyond the concept, which apparently did influence "Groundhog Day", Grimwood takes a deceptively simple writing style (I managed to polish the whole book off in about three hours max) and proceeds to milk the basic idea for all its worth. He applies a realistic filter to Jeff's first time through the merry-go-round, having him do all the things that most normal people would do in the same situation (including trying to change history . . . with unexpectedly interesting results) but by forcing him to repeat all that all over again (and again) he gives up an opportunity to keep revisiting the same scenario but with new wrinkles added each and every time. He attempts to rectify mistakes he made in his original life, tries to shake a sense of loss for what he left behind in previous run-throughs, all the while operating with the knowledge of the one thing that most of us will never know for certain: when he's going to die and how. He's not even sure if he'll come back each time but his constant struggle to both avoid his fate and try something different with his life each time makes for oddly engaging reading, as Grimwood keeps recreating the same scenarios but weighed with Jeff's knowledge of all his past lives layered on top of him, a burden he can't quite embrace nor escape.
And yet Grimwood keeps making it interesting, like a wheel running over the same track again, working the groove deeper and deeper. On one of his go-rounds, Jeff comes to realize he isn't the only one reliving his life repeatedly and that wrinkle of two people trapped in overlapping loops of the same cycle, falling in love and losing each other and having to figure out how to find each other again, greatly opens up the possibilities of the book. He varies the repetition just enough so that you notice the differences more than the similarities, managing to simultaneously convey the joy of having your whole life ahead of you again, the drudgery of having to plod through the boring parts once more (I didn't mind high school and college at the time but the thought of having to go through and study for all those classes again with my old and shriveled late thirties mind is terrifying on some level) and the anxiety that comes when knowing exactly how much time you have only means that you're more aware than anyone else how absurdly little it really is. For Jeff and the woman who becomes his companion its like riding a treadmill tilted downward and coated in oil, you can fight as hard as you want to stay upright and stay on the belt but eventually you're going to fall away back to the start again.
The fact that any of this succeeds is due to Grimwood's ability to give us forward momentum even when the plot is literally doubling back on itself. His imagination for the different scenarios is fantastic enough, like dropping the same actors into the same framework for a play over and over again and watching them improvise a different result based on what's gone before. He manages to keep the feel of it realistic by focusing on the characters themselves and how they react to something, both in their despairs and how they make it work (and for contrast he throws in a third person apparently experiencing the same phenomenon, whose reaction to it makes their wackiest moments seem like utter pillars of rationality), whether its buying stocks, betting on horse races, or making movies. What he doesn't do, and which I sorely appreciate, is make the focus on the book the characters' quests for the ultimate "why" this is all happening. Different explanations are floated and the reader can probably come up with their own theories, whether time itself is broken, or its aliens running an experiment or even some test from a higher power, but the characters quickly realize, as much as the reader probably will, that the explanation isn't the point. Knowing the why doesn't tell you anything beyond maybe that God as a weird sense of humor. Ultimately the characters are too busy living to worry about that and that's where the meat of the book lies, in the second and third chances that we all want but never get, the changes we make within ourselves with the weight of experience, the tragedy of loss and the joy of reconnecting and the grim certainty that even if you had all the time in the world, it would still be too little (something hammered home later when it becomes clear the intervals between dying and being reborn are becoming shorter and shorter).
There's a line in one of my favorite Robert Frost poems that goes "I'd like to get away from Earth awhile/and come back to it and begin over" and here Grimwood makes us ask ourselves, what would we do if we had to do it all over again? Is fixing your mistakes (or what you perceive to be mistakes) the point? Is it the opportunity to try new things, to see if all those paths we never took would actually lead us somewhere better? Or is it simply worth the chance to revel in the day to day progression once more and not worry whether we get it right the whole time. Jeff ends the novel in nearly the exact place he began it, and yet it would be difficult to suggest he's the same person. Still, were his opportunities any better or more open than ours? You don't have to feel trapped to want to make a change and you don't need a freak spasm of time to give you an excuse. In a sense, we have it better than Jeff does for a good chunk of the book. Forced to go over the same temporal ground repeatedly, he has to make the most of limited tools and see his progress, for good or ill, erased. But for us, every day forward gives a chance to move away from where we were and push ahead to a horizon that might reside where we need to be. Within the borders of our years, we are boundless, perhaps more than we realize.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
How would you live you life again?
By Solari
Originally published in 1986, Replay is a time travel story with a twist. It raises the question: what would you do if you died right now and woke up 25 years ago back in your teenage body? What if this happened several times and you could relive your life again, and again, and again?
[THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS]
The plot begins with Jeff Winston, a 43-year-old radio broadcaster that dies of a heart attack in 1988 during a phone conversation with his wife. He immediately wakes up back in 1963 and how he was at 18, still a law school student, but now with the memory of everything that would happen in the next 25 years.
The first thing that Jeff does is become a millionaire, by betting – correctly – in all the sports events he remembers. The he goes to Las Vegas, gets a trophy wife, becomes a billionaire as he knows the best company stocks to buy. Despites his efforts taking better care of his health and having a whole hospital at his disposal, Jeff dies again in 1988 and wakes up back in 1963, in a phenomenon that would repeat itself several more times.
Jeff balances himself between omnipotence and impotence. He tries to stop JFK’s assassination before it happens, but the president ends up killed by someone else. He tries to find his old wife in his new life, who drives him off in some lives and accepts him in others, evolving a different personality each time. He has a daughter in a life, who he fears will be lost in a limbo when he “reboots”. And Jeff accumulates a knowledge that he has no one to share with. Until he discovers he is not the only one “replaying” his life.
It is very interesting how the character goes through different stages along his replays, enthusiasm, depression, acceptance. Author Ken Grimwood showed great sensibility recreating all these existences, with moments of new happiness and new pain. The point that came across to me is that if we lived our lives again we wouldn’t correct the mistakes of the past, we would only make new ones. Replay is a book that transcends science fiction and makes the reader think about their own story.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Knockout book about what it means to be alive
By Gary Schroeder
Let’s just get to the point: Replay is simply one of the best novels that I’ve read in a long time, the kind of book that you’re sorry to see come to an end and, after the last page, one finds it hard to return to the “real world.” Published in 1988, Replay is basically a mid-life fantasy novel in which our hero Jeff Winston gets the unexpected opportunity to live his life over again. I’m not giving anything away by saying that he dies from a heart attack in his 40s only to reawaken as an 18 year old freshman in college. After the initial shock, he’s forced to conclude that it’s no dream; he really is re-living his life over again. He has the miraculous opportunity to do it all over…except this time, he’ll get it right. With his foreknowledge of the future, he can not only make himself wealthy, but he can avoid getting trapped into the same failed relationships that ended when he “died.” What person in their 40s hasn't wondered how things might have been different or whether or not they’ve made the most of the time that they’ve been given? Replay explores that question in elegant ways.
I wouldn’t want to give away any of the details of what Jeff learns along the way since that would ruin the enjoyment of reading the book for yourself, but I will say that author Ken Grimwood has crafted a classic here, a book that I’m surprised is not more well known. He skillfully covers universal adult themes of regret, longing, and confusion over just what the inherent meaning of life is. He delves deeply into the joys and sorrows of marriage, children, money, power, sex, and personal fulfillment. He does this so well that you may feel—as I did—as if you’ve actually had the opportunity to live multiple lives and reach the same conclusions about Universal Meaning as the protagonist does. As a result, you may be just a little more joyful about the life and the chances that you have today—right now. Replay achieves what the best fiction always does: it awakens us to fundamental truths.
One final note: the book initially has the feel of a standard time travel novel in that there are no great surprises in the first 100 pages or so…but stick with it. There’s a great twist right in the middle of the book that significantly changes its trajectory and allows it to break away from the rest of the genre.
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