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Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Published: San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2003
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 519
Total Page Count: 50,140
Text Number: 144
Read For: personal enjoyment, checked out from the library
Short review: Henry has an unusual condition: when under stress, and sometimes for no reason at all, he time travels, leaving him stranded naked and alone somewhere in the past or future until he returns to his present time. When Clare and Henry meet, she is a child and he is in his forties; when they meet again, 20-year-old Clare has known Henry her whole life but 28-year-old Henry has never seen Clare before. The Time Traveler's Wife chronicles, from both points of view, the circular journey that bring the lovers together through time. The premise of the novel is unparalleled, and Niffenegger presents it with care and realism, and so this is a truly unique book. The novel runs too long for its romantic content and the ending is abrupt, but on the whole this is an ingenious book that turns romance on its head and raises questions about the inevitability of love.
( Long review. )
Review posted here at Amazon.com.
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Published: San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2003
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 519
Total Page Count: 50,140
Text Number: 144
Read For: personal enjoyment, checked out from the library
Short review: Henry has an unusual condition: when under stress, and sometimes for no reason at all, he time travels, leaving him stranded naked and alone somewhere in the past or future until he returns to his present time. When Clare and Henry meet, she is a child and he is in his forties; when they meet again, 20-year-old Clare has known Henry her whole life but 28-year-old Henry has never seen Clare before. The Time Traveler's Wife chronicles, from both points of view, the circular journey that bring the lovers together through time. The premise of the novel is unparalleled, and Niffenegger presents it with care and realism, and so this is a truly unique book. The novel runs too long for its romantic content and the ending is abrupt, but on the whole this is an ingenious book that turns romance on its head and raises questions about the inevitability of love.
( Long review. )
Review posted here at Amazon.com.
