Time travel, angst, and more.

Replay, by Ken Grimwood

By the time I was sixty pages into this book, the protaganist had died three time. I was hooked.

Jeff died of a heart-attack and woke in college 25 years earlier. He came to terms quickly, and gambled and invested his way to enourmous wealth.

He died again on the same day at the same time, although in this life he was perfectly healthy. He came back again, a few days after his first replay.

His second time around, he tried to achieve personal fulfillment. He was unable to win his wife over this time, and so settled for a society woman. He had a daughter, he'd never had children before.

When death-day came, he admitted himself to a hospital. He suffered a fatal, inexplicable heart attack anyway. He cam back, wounded to his soul that his daughter was simply erased.

I won't spoil anything else, as I recommend this read. The characters feel quite real. The author deals with them with a mix of compassion and cynisism that makes them all but breath.