The Time Traveler's Wife
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The iconic time travel love story and mega-bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger is "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune).
Henry DeTamble is a dashing, adventurous librarian who is at the mercy of his random time time-traveling abilities. Clare Abshire is an artist whose life moves through a natural sequential course. This is the celebrated and timeless tale of their love. Henry and Clare's passionate affair is built and endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. “Niffenegger’s inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip” (Entertainment Weekly).
The iconic time travel love story and mega-bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger is "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune).
Henry DeTamble is a dashing, adventurous librarian who is at the mercy of his random time time-traveling abilities. Clare Abshire is an artist whose life moves through a natural sequential course. This is the celebrated and timeless tale of their love. Henry and Clare's passionate affair is built and endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. “Niffenegger’s inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip” (Entertainment Weekly).
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Readers say *The Time Traveler’s Wife* presents a unique, poetic love story marked by an original premise of involuntary time travel and enduring devo...
A unique story about a man who has a disorder that makes him involuntarily slip through time to unpredictable moments in his own history. This allows him to meet his wife at different points in time, at many different ages. Henry is a disheveled librarian and Clare is a quirky artist. I enjoyed this book about their unconventional, devoted love that endures across the time continuum.
Unpopular opinion: I'd like the story better if Henry never visited Clare as a child. Other than that, it was a very romantic tale with an emotional ending. I may have even shed a few tears! The 2022 HBO TV series adaptation looks good - I must watch!
Unpopular opinion: I'd like the story better if Henry never visited Clare as a child. Other than that, it was a very romantic tale with an emotional ending. I may have even shed a few tears! The 2022 HBO TV series adaptation looks good - I must watch!
Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It is such a cute love story that allows the reader to watch the characters grow and develop over a period of time. One of my favorites!
A brilliant premise that doesn't fully take off. The Time Traveler's Wife has an extraordinary starting idea: a love doomed to blossom out of order, between random appointments dictated by a genetic disease and anguished waiting. The concept is poetic and fascinating, and the first meetings between Henry and Clare have a heartbreaking originality.
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