| View Larger Image | The Time Traveler's Wife | Paperbackby Audrey Niffenegger (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Mariner Books | | Edition: | Reprintth Edition | | Page Count: | 560 Pages | | Publication Date: | May 27, 2004 | | Sales Rank: | 81st |
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Product Description
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 2109 reviews)
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Life is "waiting" and i wish i could never stop reading by Matthew J. Robinson Jr. (Michigan)  5 Stars
November 25, 2009
Audrey Niffenneger crafts an elegant and intricate world of the time traveler and his wife. It hits all the right notes at all the right places. Time Traveler's Wife is for the intelligent reader who looks for strong character and creative storytelling.
The story is filled with powerful moments. The dialogue is clever, i found myself laughing throughout the witty quips and exchanges. The happy spots filling out are deeply engaging. Audrey vividly conveys the most touching aspects of love and having it.
Sadness is soooo well shown in this book that i was left weeping and concidering the ramifications of many characters actions days later. Death and pain are felt by the reader in moments of darkness. The sadness at times outweighs the happiness in the rest of the book. If you can stomach the sorrow, there's no better place to look.
The writing takes on personality for each character. Clare has a noticable and unique voice. Henry is wise ass and crass. The language sophisticated at one end of the spectrum, and raw-animalistic at other times. Sex is plentiful but tastefully done, never raunchy.
Time Traveler's Wife will move you, it pulls you in, breaks your heart and never lets go.
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Good premise, verbose execution by C. Jacobs (Melbourne, Australia)  2 Stars
November 25, 2009
At first this book was a real page-turner. The premise is preposterous but one can easily accept it as the driver for an interesting and innovative story. And it could have been such a novel, if it was 300 pages shorter. In reality, the relentless pretentiousness and verbosity of the prose gradually wore me down. Endless descriptions of the protagonist's daily lives, laced with a comical amount of literary, artistic and musical name-dropping mentioned by other reviewers.
It's the archetypal first novel, and for all that, is a decent effort, but it needs an awful lot of editing.
I made it to page 337 before I gave up and read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia.
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Time Traveler's Wife by Jal (Central PA) 5 Stars
November 21, 2009
This is an amazing book! It is rare that i can see a movie and then read the book and actually still love the movie and the book! This is an amazing piece of literature!!
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Good idea, poor execution by Robert R. Jann (Charlotte, NC USA) 2 Stars
November 20, 2009
This book's plot idea was good, but the execution left much to be desired. Each time trip is just like the last. The shift in point-of-view is well done, but the characters' voices are identical. The hero, a man, talks like a woman.
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Wonderful by WyoGrl (Wyoming) 5 Stars
November 18, 2009
I didn't think time travel could be re-imagined anymore than it already has been, yet with The Time Traveler's Wife, it has. I loved this novel.
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