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Title: The Time Traveler's Wife

Other Available Formats:
Digital, 2009
Audio Cassette, 2003
Hardcover, 2003
Compact Disc, 2003
Hardcover, 2004
Prebinding, 2004
Paperback, 2004
Paperback, 2004
Reinforced Hardcover, 2004
Hardcover, 2005
Compact Disc, 2006
, 2006
, 2006
Compact Disc, 2008

Synopsis
Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling novel has a fantastical concept--a man who involuntarily travel through time and his wife--but for all its strangeness, its true power lies in its ability to make the reader feel the force of the characters' love and the depth of their tragedies. Henry DeTamble suffers from a genetic condition called Chrono-Displacement that causes him to unexpectedly slip backwards or forwards in time, appearing completely naked at times and places with special significant to his life. As a result, he has visited his wife Clare many times during her childhood, so when she finally meets him at the age of 20 she already knows much about his personality and their life together in the future--he, however, does not know who she is because his time traveling episodes have not happened yet. Sly charming magic of this sort infuses the novel with a kind of dreamy wondrousness. More importantly, the time-traveling acts as a marvelous metaphor for the nature of love, how it changes, how it's constantly impacted by the events of the past, and the promises of the future.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        518 Pages
Weight:        2.1 Pounds
Height:         9.3 Inches
Width:          7 Inches
Thickness:    3 Inches


Publisher Notes
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

Industry Reviews
"Mainstreamed time-travel romance, cleverly executed and tastefully furnished....Presented as a literary novel, this is more accurately an exceedingly literate one....A LOVE STORY for educated, upper-middle-class tastes...."
(08/01/2003)
"The author has produced a splendid and original tale....I won't spoil the ending, except to say that it is a tearjerker."
(January/February 2004)
"[A]n unabashed homage to love, a tear-jerker of the first order which also happens to be an absorbing existential exploration of 'being' and temporality."
(February 2004)


Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Time Traveler's Wife and it was written by Audrey Niffenegger. This edition of The Time Traveler's Wife is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is September 2003 and it has a suggested retail price of $25. There are 518 pages in the book and it was published by Macadam Cage Pub. The 10 digit ISBN is 193156146X and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781931561464. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.