Jeff Winston is a forty-three-year-old radio journalist who dies of a heart attack in 1988, only to wake up in his college dormitory in 1963. He retains every memory of his previous life, including future sports scores, stock market fluctuations, and his failing marriage. Jeff cycles through several lifetimes, repeating the twenty-five-year span between his youth and his inevitable death date. Along the way, he discovers others trapped in the same temporal loop, finding that wealth and hedonism eventually yield to a frantic search for permanence and connection across different timelines.
Readers who enjoy speculative fiction centered on time loops and historical alternative realities will find this a pragmatic examination of human regret. It appeals to those who wonder how they would alter their personal history given a second chance. The book provides a look at the psychological exhaustion inherent in repetition and the realization that absolute knowledge of the future does not guarantee happiness. A reader finishes the story with a clinical understanding of how choice and chance define an individual life more than the accumulation of status or assets.
Inward-looking; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Empathetic Explorer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
