num_pages: 536
description: Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife , is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry finds himself periodically displaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.The Time Traveler’s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's marriage and their passionate love for each other, as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals -- steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.
language: English
title: The Time Traveler's Wife
titlecomplete: The Time Traveler's Wife
characters: Celia Attley, Mark Abshire, Alba DeTamble, Dr. David Kendrick, Mrs. Kim, Lucille Abshire, Alicia Abshire, Henry DeTamble, Ingrid Carmichael, Clare Abshire, Gomez, Richard DeTamble, Charisse, Philip Abshire
genres: Science Fiction, Adult, Contemporary, Magical Realism, Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Romance
ratings_count: 1754647
places: South Haven, Michigan, Illinois, Michigan, Chicago, Illinois
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: British Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: Knopf Canada