![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, after failing in a predictable attempt to prevent the JFK assassination, Jeff decides to use his time-warp memory for fun and profit: he becomes a multimillionaire via gambling and investment, marries for status instead of love, winds up unhappy, dies again at 43-and then the whole cycle is repeated over and over, each time with Jeff trying a different approach to life and time-travel. old self(in all but mind) back in 1963, complete with culture-shocks and push-button nostalgia in the Back to the Future/Peggy Sue Got Married groove. Jeff Winston, 43, has a fatal heart attack in 1988.and wakes up as his 18-year. Worse yet, instead of recycling all those notions into a shapely, involving entertainment, he merely repeats one after another-in a numbingly episodic novel that rends like a dozen or so sf short stories strung together haphazardly. Replay"" is the word, all right-because Grimwood (Elise, The Voice Outside) here rehashes just about every time-travel/reincarnation clichÉ you've ever encountered. ![]()
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