The Time Traveler's Wife

A Novel

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Paperback, 560 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2003 by houghton mifflin harcourt.

ISBN:
978-0-15-602943-8
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OCLC Number:
781313530

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3 stars (1 review)

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshire, and artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. (back cover)

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reviewed The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Manipulative and compelling

3 stars

Let's be honest: this is NOT a good book. It is a bit shallow and manipulative as hell. Still, I could not give it less than three stars because I had a pretty good time reading it. By the end, I was sucked in into the story so much that I literally cried. It left me with the feeling I get after watching a 3-hour Hollywood love story on a sad, sunny Sunday afternoon. Sure, you COULD do something better with your time, but why should you?

Subjects

  • Librarians -- Fiction.
  • Time travel -- Fiction.
  • Married people -- Fiction.
  • Women art students -- Fiction.