Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
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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 Good premise, verbose execution November 25, 2009
C. Jacobs (Melbourne, Australia)
At first this book was a real page-turner. The premise is preposterous but one can easily accept it as the driver for an interesting and innovative story. And it could have been such a novel, if it was 300 pages shorter. In reality, the relentless pretentiousness and verbosity of the prose gradually wore me down. Endless descriptions of the protagonist's daily lives, laced with a comical amount of literary, artistic and musical name-dropping mentioned by other reviewers.
It's the archetypal first novel, and for all that, is a decent effort, but it needs an awful lot of editing.
I made it to page 337 before I gave up and read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia.
 Time Traveler's Wife November 21, 2009
Jal (Central PA)
This is an amazing book! It is rare that i can see a movie and then read the book and actually still love the movie and the book! This is an amazing piece of literature!!
Good idea, poor execution November 20, 2009
Robert R. Jann (Charlotte, NC USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book's plot idea was good, but the execution left much to be desired. Each time trip is just like the last. The shift in point-of-view is well done, but the characters' voices are identical. The hero, a man, talks like a woman.
Wonderful November 18, 2009
WyoGrl (Wyoming)
I didn't think time travel could be re-imagined anymore than it already has been, yet with The Time Traveler's Wife, it has. I loved this novel.
 Absence makes the heart grow fonder? November 18, 2009
Doon (TN USA)
The author did an excellent job capturing the feeling and fear of loss. The time traveling was intriguing, although a little confusing at first. The foreshadowing was well done and added a fair amount of suspense to the novel. Like other reviewers, I couldn't keep Nell and Etta straight. I didn't understand the point of adding in the French, German, etc. It was a stumbling block to the modern day reader and only came across as elitist. There were several passages I skimmed rapidly through, like the pool playing scene that seemed to go on forever without a point. I didn't quite understand the repetitive comraderly communist comments from Gomez and his wife, except that the author needed to insert that veiw point into the novel. Then there were the Gomez linking up with Clare times and Henry didn't seem to mind. In conclusion, I am not sure that it wasn't simply a lifetime of lust that the storyline followed. I think that those of us who were moved by the ending were actually foisting our own concepts of love upon the characters and empathizing with their loses by imagining our own. The novel itself did not capture the depth of the self sacrificing nature of love.
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