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BRENNERT, ALAN. TIME AND CHANCE - FIRST HARD COVER.

New York: Tor, 1990. First Edition. 6 X 9. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0312931921. Review: On closing night of a Broadway revival of Brigadoon, actor Richard Cochrane blows his lines when a voice no one else hears disrupts the performance. Shortly thereafter, he is told that his mother has died. Returning to his home in New Hampshire, the lonely actor is forced to reevaluate his life. Then a strange thing happens: he finds he has changed bodies with the man he might have been. No longer a lonely actor, Cochrane is employed in a life insurance firm, unhappily married and a failure as a father. Meanwhile, Rick, the ``other man,\ occupies Richards body in Manhattan and conducts a nasty, cocaine-tooting affair with Richards hard-as-nails ex-wife. Brennert (Kindred Spirits) spins a playful, affecting and well-written tale in the best tradition of The Twilight Zone. -- Publishers Weekly.