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The Time Traveler's Wife
(Paperback, 2004)
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Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling novel has a fantastical concept--a man who involuntarily travel thr...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 015602943X
ISBN-13: 9780156029438
Jul 2004
Publisher: Mariner Books
544 pages
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Harvest Book Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling novel has a fantastical concept--a man who involuntarily travel through time and his wife--but for all its strangeness, its true power lies in its ability to make the reader feel the force of the characters' love and the depth of their tragedies. Henry DeTamble suffers from a genetic condition called Chrono-Displacement that causes him to unexpectedly slip backwards or forwards in time, appearing completely naked at times and places with special significant to his life. As a result, he has visited his wife Clare many times during her childhood, so when she finally meets him at the age of 20 she already knows much about his personality and their life together in the future--he, however, does not know who she is because his time traveling episodes have not happened yet. Sly charming magic of this sort infuses the novel with a kind of dreamy wondrousness. More importantly, the time-traveling acts as a marvelous metaphor for the nature of love, how it changes, how it's constantly impacted by the events of the past, and the promises of the future., Henry has a mysterious condition: he is able to travel through time. On one such trip, he meets Clare, visiting her at various times in her life until, finally, the two meet in real time, marry, and have a child--who is also a time-traveler. Henry dies, tragically, at 43--but returns to Clare when she herself is in extreme old age.
| Details | | Series: | Harvest Book Series |
| Size | | Length: | 544 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 17.9 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Mainstreamed time-travel romance, cleverly executed and tastefully furnished....Presented as a literary novel, this is more accurately an exceedingly literate one....A LOVE STORY for educated, upper-middle-class tastes...."
Kirkus Reviews (08/01/2003)
"[A]n unabashed homage to love, a tear-jerker of the first order which also happens to be an absorbing existential exploration of 'being' and temporality."
Literary Review - Lucy Beresford (02/01/2004)
"The author has produced a splendid and original tale....I won't spoil the ending, except to say that it is a tearjerker."
Bloomsbury Review - John A. Murray
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Other Editions
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Hardcover, 2003 - $19.80 Save 20%
Audio, 2003 - $19.50 Save 47%
Hardcover, 2004 - $55.41
Audio, 2003 - $12.79 Save 65%
Hardcover, 2003 - $5.00 Save 80%
Hardcover, 2005 - $40.44
Audio, 2006 - $20.98 Save 57%
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Paperback, 2004 - $3.00 Save 86%
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Other, 2006 - $64.60
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Audio, 2008 - $20.00 Save 49%
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