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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger

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"Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in an unpredictable parallel. Delightful, imaginative, with an unforgettable conclusion." Donna Kane, Powells.com

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The love story of Henry and Claire whose lives are punctuated by Henry's disappearance to different points in time--sometimes even back to visit Claire as a young woman. When Henry meets Claire, he is twenty-eight, and she is twenty. He's a hip, handsome librarian; she is an art student with Botticelli hair. Henry has never met Claire before; Claire has known Henry since she was six...

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"[A] highly original first novel....[A] soaring love story illuminated by dozens of finely observed details and scenes....[L]eaves a reader with an impression of life's riches and strangeness rather than of easy thrills." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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"[C]leverly executed and tastefully furnished if occasionally overwrought....A Love Story for educated, upper-middle-class tastes...it could have some of that long-ago book's commercial potential, too." Kirkus Reviews

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"The premise may sound strange, but Niffenegger infuses her love story with such bittersweet tenderness that it becomes credible." Orlando Sentinel

Synopsis:

The Time Traveler's Wife is the love story of Henry and Clare DeTamble, a young married couple living in Chicago. Their lives together are complicated by a mystifying and exasperating genetic condition that causes Henry to involuntarily time travel. While Clare is left wondering if the man she always knew she would marry is safe from harm, Henry is taken on journies that are unpredictable, and alternately harrowing and amusing. While Henry strains to live as normal a life as he can, pursuing goals that will be familiar to most — a steady job, love, good friends, children of his own — Clare has always known that their love was pre-destined, having already met Henry as a young girl when he would time travel from their present to her past before they met.

Their bizarre life and the challenges they face are the same burdens that ultimately we all must deal with the inability to have control over their lives. However, what Henry's affliction does provide them is a glimpse to their final hours and to the novel's breathtaking ending. The Time Traveler's Wife is a story about adoration, separation, and ultimately about how time defines so much in our lives.

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Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.

The Time Traveler's Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals — steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

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About the Author

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, where she teaches writing, letterpress printing, and fine edition book production. She shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife is her first novel.
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kiraboo, July 9, 2007 (view all comments by kiraboo)
If I could give this more stars, I would. This is my favorite book ever (and that's saying a lot). Romantic without being sappy, enormously suspenseful, and just jolly good fun, it's really an incredible book. And even better- it's a very different book the second time you read it!
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Britt, July 2, 2007 (view all comments by Britt)
This seemingly impossible love story of two people, Henry and Claire, is eloquently written. This book tells a tale that is woven to aide readers to identify and understand the difficulties of love, life, and loss. I give this book five stars for the well developed characters that make this novel truly real and heartfelt and for the way the author wrote this novel. I could tell that Niffenegger wrote this tale from her heart. I am sincerely glad that she wrote this book and that I was lucky enough to stumble upon it.
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Kita, June 6, 2007 (view all comments by Kita)
This is one of my top five favourite books ever. It is beutifully written and draws in all your attention from the first page.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781931561648
Author:
Niffenegger, Audrey
Publisher:
MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Subject:
Fantasy - General
Subject:
Married people
Subject:
Time travel
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Literary
Series Volume:
TA2150-3
Publication Date:
September 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
525
Dimensions:
9.38x6.32x1.75 in. 2.07 lbs.
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