Replay by Marc Levy (Book Analysis) E-Book

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• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 17

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Replay by Marc Levy, which follows the New York Times journalist Andrew Stilman, who is stabbed and left for dead by a mystery assailant while out jogging one morning. When he wakes up, he realises that he has gone back in time to two months earlier, and resolves to use the second chance he has been granted to find and stop his attacker, and to repair his fractured relationship with his high-school sweetheart. Along the way, he is forced to reevaluate his views on love, honesty and truth, and comes to an important realisation about the meaning of life. Marc Levy is one of France’s most popular contemporary authors, having published a string of international bestsellers, including If Only It Were True and P.S. from Paris.

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Leseprobe

Marc Levy

French author

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt (France) in 1961.Notable works:Seven Days for an Eternity (2003), novelThe Strange Journey of Mr. Daldry (2011), novelStronger than Fear (2013), novel

At the age of 18, Marc Levy joined the Red Cross as a first-aid worker while studying management and IT in Paris. He went on to create his own import company in France, before moving to the USA and founding two CGI companies. Six years later, he resigned and set up an architecture firm in Paris, which went on to become one of the most successful in France.

After the meteoric success of his first novel If Only It Were True (2000), which spent 70 weeks on the bestseller lists, Levy began writing full-time. Since then, he has written several other novels, all of which became bestsellers in France and achieved international popularity.

Replay

A meditation on life

Genre: novelReference edition: Levy, M. (2014) Replay. Trans. Bignold, K. and Iyer, L. R. New York: Europa Editions.1st edition: 2012Themes: murder, investigation, second chances, love

Replay is Marc Levy’s 13th novel and was first published in French in 2012. Its protagonist, Andrew Stilman, has a seemingly perfect life: as a journalist for the New York Times, he has a job he loves at a prestigious newspaper, and things are just as rosy in his personal life, as he has just married his high-school sweetheart Valerie. However, one morning his life is turned upside down when he is attacked in the street and left for dead. When he wakes up, he realises that he has gone back in time and that he has two months to identify his killer, before the date of his murder comes around.

Summary

A second chance

The story begins in May 2011. Andrew Stilman is a young journalist at the prestigious New York Times