Which is interesting in itself, in much the same way that Marty McFly’s 1985 is now chronologically closer to his idealised 1955 than he is to us here in 2016. To a contemporary reader this is of course very similar to Claire North’s The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, although obviously Grimwood had the idea a good 25 years before her. He’s been given a a reset button: a chance to do it all over again, but this time knowing exactly how the course of history is going to play out. When he wakes up again he’s lying on his bed in his college dorm, in the spring of 1963 back in his teenage body, but with all the memories of the “past” 25 years. Suddenly he dies of a heart attack – a forlorn end to an unremarkable, underachieving life. On October 18, 1988, Jeff Winston is 42 years old, sitting in his office speaking to his wife on the phone.
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