The Time Traveler's Wife

A Novel

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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2 stars (2 reviews)

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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2 stars

I went into listening to this audiobook not really knowing a lot about it save its title and that it was popular enough to have been made into a movie.

This is not really a science fiction book at all, even though the title would lead you to believe. The Time Travel of the title is no Jules Verne character but a 21st century heart throb who has some kind of disease that forces him into other points in time without his ability to anything about. He can't take anything with him, so he always shows up naked, so he spends most of his time running and trying to find clothes. Somehow one of those naked adventures was to meet a 7 year old girl who would end up being his wife.

At the begining they author made it very clear that there are no multiverses, there is no possibility …

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Subjects

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