The Time Traveler's Wife

By Audrey Niffenegger
(Mariner Books, Paperback, 9780156029438, 560pp.)

Publication Date: July 2004

Other Editions of This Title: Large Print (September 2009), (May 2008), Paperback (April 2007), Paperback (July 2006), (February 2006), Hardcover (February 2006), Hardcover (October 2005), Audio Cassette - Abridged (September 2003), Compact Disc - Abridged (September 2003), Hardcover (September 2003), Hardcover (September 2003)

Categories: Fantasy - General, Romance - Time Travel

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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.




About the Author

AUDREY NIFFENEGGER is a professor in the M.F.A. program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.This is her first novel, which in hardcover was a selection of Today’s Book Club. She lives in Chicago.




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1. On the novel"s first page Clare declares, "I wait for Henry." In what way does this define her character, and how is the theme of waiting developed throughout the book?




Praise For The Time Traveler's Wife

PRAISE FOR THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE
“An enchanting novel, beautifully crafted and as dazzlingly imaginative as it is dizzyingly romantic.”—SCOTT TUROW

“A powerfully original love story . . . [An] amazing trip.”—PEOPLE

“Niffenegger plays ingeniously in her temporal hall of mirrors.”—THE NEW YORKER

“[This] inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip.”—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY


"[A] time-travel love story par excellence. . . . [A] soaring celebration of the victory of love over time."

"A powerfully original love story."

Spirited . . . Niffenegger plays ingeniously in her temporal hall of mirrors."

"Tremendous grace and imagination . . . A love story without softness or flinching."