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The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

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First let me say that I have a tremendous fondness for Chicago novels. I'd go even farther and say that I'm a sucker if an author writes a book and I can recognize the locations all the way through. And when you mention Bookman's Alley AND the Newberry Library in the same book, how can I not like it? Sure, it's an odd mix of disturbing, sappy and unbelievable even for the fantastical, but it's also a really enjoyable read and quite a good love story. Because it's written in little vignettes, it almost feels like a collection of short stories, but I think the disconcerting moving around perfectly mirrors the disconcerting nature of a time traveler's life. ( )
1 vote JasonSmith | Nov 19, 2009 |
very unique and imaginative. I loved it. ( )
  GaylDasherSmith | Nov 18, 2009 |
I tried to listen to this talking book and turned it off after 20 minutes. One of only two talking books I have ever turned off. Perhaps I will revisit this book after reading all the positive review. This time I will try reading the book rather that listening to it. ( )
  misibea | Nov 18, 2009 |
I finished The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger the other day, and I’m surprised at how much it’s stayed in my head since then. It’s not the kind of book that I’d usually pick up, but the girlfriend rated it and said it’s one of her favourite ever books, so I figured I’d give it a go.

And from the opening chapter it just gripped me. There’s not so much a plot, more of a tale of love between two people. Admittedly, the eponymous time travelling does give the book something different, and its execution is simply fantastic, but it’s still a love story at heart.

The switch in narration between the two lovers works well, especially with the chronology so thrown out by all of the time travelling taking place. Within half a paragraph you know exactly where you are, and what each character does and doesn’t know.

I really don’t know how to describe it further. It’s poignant in places, bittersweet in others; the sex scenes are well written, but equally well put across are other intimate moments that don’t necessarily involve getting down to it.

I fully agree with the girlfriend: this is a great book, and I can highly recommend it. ( )
1 vote gooneruk | Nov 17, 2009 |
I adored this book, even while surfacing occasionally to go – wait a minute, he's a creep!
  mulliner | Nov 14, 2009 |
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"The Time Traveler's Wife" can be an exasperating read, but as a love story it has its appeal: Refreshingly, the novel portrays long-term commitment as something lively and exuberant rather than dutiful and staid, evoking both the comforts it brings us and the tribulations we learn to live with.
 
Niffenegger, despite her moving, razor-edged prose, doesn't claim to be a romantic. She writes with the unflinching yet detached clarity of a war correspondent standing at the sidelines of an unfolding battle. She possesses a historian's eye for contextual detail. This is no romantic idyll.
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About halfway through Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, you realize you're going to be devastated. You love the characters, you're deeply involved in their lives, you can sense tragedy coming and you know it's going to hurt. But there's no way you can stop reading... Niffenegger structures the novel clearly enough that the timelines never get tangled, and her writing is so strong you'd keep going even if you did get confused.
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Clock time is our bank manager, tax collector, police inspector; this inner time is our wife. -- J. B. Priestly, Man and Time
Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
--Derek Walcott
Dedication
For Elizabeth Hillman Tamandl, May 20, 1915-December 18, 1986, and Norbert Charles Tamandl, February 11, 1915-May 23, 1957
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Clare: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
Clare: It's hard being left behind. -- from the Prologue
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 015602943X, Paperback)

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.

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