Yes, I said - but quite honestly, any familiarity was for the title alone. When we were visiting our son Scott not long ago, he handed me an old hardback copy of The Reincarnation of Peter Proud and asked if I remembered it. In this classic suspense novel first published in 1973, Max Ehrlich expertly interweaves multiple themes of life after death, romance, tragedy, and altered consciousness into an unforgettable tale. Will a second tragedy occur just as Peter is about to unravel the mystery behind his dreams? Peter meets and falls in love with Marcia’s daughter, Ann, just as Marcia realizes that he is a reincarnation of Jeff. The woman, Marcia Curtis, is shocked to see in Peter personality traits and characteristics that precisely recall those of her dead husband, Jeff, including his voice. He travels to Springfield, Massachusetts, and comes face to face with the woman from his nightmares. But he soon discovers a new dimension to his dilemma while watching a television show called “America, Past and Present”-and realizes the show is set in the town in his dreams. These dreams-which he comes to believe may be flashbacks from a previous life-become so disturbing that he seeks answers from a sleep researcher, a clairvoyant, and an expert in psychic phenomena in order to recover his past. Peter Proud’s ordinary life as a professor in California is threatened by recurrent dreams that all end the same: with his murder in a lake at night by a mysterious woman named Marcia.
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