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Fifty in Reverse

A Novel

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Fifty in Reverse

By: Bill Flanagan
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
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From TV personality and radio host Bill Flanagan comes a “funny and sharp” (Rosanne Cash, Grammy Award–winning singer/songwriter and bestselling author) time-traveling adventure novel about how the past never gives up its hold on the present and how even sixty-five-year-olds are still kids at heart.

If you had the chance to live your life over again, knowing everything that you know now, would you take it? Would you still take it if it meant losing everything you had today? Would a second chance to correct every mistake and missed opportunity be worth giving up the world you know and the life you have built? In Fifty in Reverse, fifteen-year-old Peter Wyatt does just that.

In the spring of 1970, Harvard psychologist Terry Canyon is introduced to Peter, a quiet kid from a wealthy family who has been suspended from ninth grade for stripping off his clothes in Algebra class. When Terry asks Peter why he did, the boy explains that he was trying to “shock myself awake.” It turns out that Peter believes he is a sixty-five-year-old man who went to sleep in his home in New York in the year 2020 and woke up in his childhood bedroom fifty years earlier.

Hilariously depicting Peter’s attempts to fit in as a fifteen-year-old in 1970 and to cope with the tedium, foolishness, and sexual temptations of high school as he tries to retain the sense of himself as a sixty-five-year-old man, Fifty in Reverse is a thought-provoking and enlightening novel about second chances and appreciating where you are in life. Alternate History Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel Heartfelt Thought-Provoking
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"Who has not stared at a darkened bedroom ceiling and fantasized about what they would do if they could live life over? To the hero of this audiobook, Peter Wyatt, this is a reality. One day, the 65-year-old man wakes up in the body of himself at age 15 in 1970. Narrator Michael Crouch sounds like a desperate yet earnest teenager who is equipped with decades of knowledge of coming events. He can do anything, but all he wants is a way to get his old life back. He introduces songs stolen from 'future' songwriters as his own and half-heartedly tries to break into the music business while trying to find the girl who would someday be his wife. It's a fascinating work that will make listeners consider what they would do if given the chance to rewrite their lives."
Engaging Time-travel Premise • Nostalgic References • Excellent Narration • Insightful Reflections • Humorous Storytelling

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This book had a lot of potential, but it was like the author gave up at some point, and decided just to wrap it up. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

First half is great, then it’s a train crash. Really disappointing.

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Well written book that puts a different spin on time travel. I recommend this book very much

Enjoyable listen

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good story. some good character depth but not a lot of explanation for the time travel part

not a long story, but a good one

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I have listened to a lot of time traveling books and this was different. I thought i have figured all the ways things could go but this was different. different as in good. had me guessing untill the end. very nice book. way too short. Book 2 Maybe????

had me wondering

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This novella is the best time loop story I’ve read since Ken Grimwood ‘Replay’. However, unlike Grimwood novel which is set over three decades, this story is set over a few months in 1970. The characters are very well-defined, and I suspect based upon real people in the authors life. I couldn’t turn it off and finished it all in a five hour session. The ending was near perfect!

Great Time Loop Story

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