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The Time Traveler's Wife

By Audrey Niffenegger

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| Paperback | 9780099464464

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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. ImpossiblContinue

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The Time Traveler's Wife

Many novels today are concerned with difficult, diffracted relationships in modern society, but there are few (if any!) where the problems are largely caused by accidental time-travel. I approached this novel with some caution, since the blurb made i ... (read full critics)

bookotron published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

The Time Traveler's Wife

'The Time Traveler's Wife' sounds as if it should be another science fiction novel detailing the adventures resulting from time travel. However, anyone expecting such a story from Audrey Niffenegger could be sadly disappointed. Niffenegger's novel is ... (read full critics)

bookotron published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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Imagine that when you are 6 years old, you meet a man that comes from nowhere and you find out that he comes from the future because he is a time traveller. Would you offer to help him?
This story is about a woman who knew her future husband since she was a child. He time travelled but it wa ... (continue)

Imagine that when you are 6 years old, you meet a man that comes from nowhere and you find out that he comes from the future because he is a time traveller. Would you offer to help him?
This story is about a woman who knew her future husband since she was a child. He time travelled but it was out of his control. She accepted him as part of her life. Each time he left, all she could do was to hope that he would come back to her.
In spite of a slightly confusing beginning, it is a good bittersweet love story.

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Tiny said on Aug 25, 2006 | 1 feedback

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I like the downplay of the futuristic scenes and the clinical explanation for human time traveling, making the plot more realistic altogether. An anomaly of all the time traveling books I have read. The theme tone of the book, I think, is love and the inevitable sorrow intertwined with love. The ing ... (continue)

I like the downplay of the futuristic scenes and the clinical explanation for human time traveling, making the plot more realistic altogether. An anomaly of all the time traveling books I have read. The theme tone of the book, I think, is love and the inevitable sorrow intertwined with love. The ingenious writing reminds me one of my favorite movies "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind".

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meowmeow said on Jan 27, 2007 | 1 feedback

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I was SO disappointed with this book. *sigh* I must be a very linear person to have struggled with all that timezone jumping around. And also to have him in the same timezone with himself is just way confusing. But my main issue with this book is the purpose - I mean, what's it all about? Where is i ... (continue)

I was SO disappointed with this book. *sigh* I must be a very linear person to have struggled with all that timezone jumping around. And also to have him in the same timezone with himself is just way confusing. But my main issue with this book is the purpose - I mean, what's it all about? Where is it going? What is the journey? Things improved slightly when the daughter was born but I found it lacked purpose and meaning. Can't wait to see what they do with the movie.

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Helen said on Aug 9, 2009 | Add your feedback

Déroutant au début, mais quelle construction littéraire!

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Vaillans said on Jan 7, 2012 | Add your feedback

Was amazing once finished but drug on at points. I can't believe they didn't include the Ingrid storyline in the movie!?

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Mchern1 said on Dec 27, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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