Celeste reviewed The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Review of "The Time Traveler's Wife" on 'Goodreads'
Engaging writing, but so flipping weird.
Hardcover, 522 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2003 by MacAdam/Cage.
The Time Traveler's Wife
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 sic and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry was 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, 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 attemp 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 …
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 sic and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry was 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, 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 attemp 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. (front flap)
Joel A reviewed The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Review of "The Time Traveler's Wife" on 'LibraryThing'
4 stars
My first book I read on the basis of a recommendation from LibraryThing - and I liked it. I don't usually read science fiction, but I appreciated that this was science fiction where only one premise about the real world was changed. The gimmick was carried off very well, and the intellectual puzzle was a lot of fun, even if I occasionally had to flip around to figure out who knew what when.
My first book I read on the basis of a recommendation from LibraryThing - and I liked it. I don't usually read science fiction, but I appreciated that this was science fiction where only one premise about the real world was changed. The gimmick was carried off very well, and the intellectual puzzle was a lot of fun, even if I occasionally had to flip around to figure out who knew what when.
