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Editor Reviews:

Product Description:

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?"

Rating : - A wonderful affirmation of the beauty of existence
Because there are so many reviews of this book, nearly all of them wildly positive, I won't try to add a great deal more here except to state that this is one of the most life-affirming books that I have ever read. As the book's protagonist lives his life over and over and over again, he gradually comes to appreciate those things that most matter. Although this is loosely considered a genre novel, it is something that almost anyone who enjoys reading will love and appreciate.

It is interesting to ask precisely what genre the book belongs to. I don't think it can be considered Sci-fi, except possibly very soft Sci-fi. It isn't quite an alternative reality novel. More than anything, it is a fantasy novel. The other work it most closely resembles is the movie GROUNDHOG DAY, except that the cycles are not a single day but years. I have not read whether or not REPLAY influenced either GROUNDHOG DAY or its source material, but it seems likely.

This has been a very good reading year for me, a year in which I've discovered many new and extremely fine books. But discovering and reading REPLAY was one of the highlights. I learned of it, by the way, on the recurring feature "You Must Read This" on NPR's All Things Considered. I have been inspired to read a few books by that feature (though not all suggestions are of equal value -- one contributor suggested NIGHTWOOD by Djuna Barnes, perhaps my all time least favorite serious work of fiction). This has probably been my favorite.