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The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife

By
Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger
2004 • 546 pages

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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. 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, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. ([source][1])

[1]: https://www.audreyniffenegger.com/published-books/2015/4/22/the-time-travelers-wife-2005

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  • Science fiction
  • Classics
  • Fantasy
  • Time Travel
  • Young Adult

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  • Drug use
  • miscarriage
  • Sexual content
  • suicide

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mariya-boyko
Mariya Boyko@mariya-boyko

I really liked how the author used metaphor of time travelling to emphasize emotional absence and irresponsibility. I'm not sure if this is a spoiler or not, but if you ever met people who have hard time keeping any of their promissis, and them backing out last minute, and somehow always having very "good" excuses - the main character is just like that. The book is well-written, but perhaps some chapters are way too stretched out. I found the main character VERY annoying, but it's great that the author was able to evoke those emotions in readers.

October 30, 2022
Esselpe
SLP@Esselpe

This is currently a favorite for me. It definitely gets the award for the best use of time travel in a modern, full-length novel.

October 1, 2008
georgettetan
Georgette@georgettetan

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brittaniethekid
Brittanie@brittaniethekid

Loved the first half, got bored with the second. Never finished.

August 3, 2009

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