num_pages: 518
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 is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in 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.(front flap)
language: English
title: The Time Traveler's Wife
titlecomplete: The Time Traveler's Wife
characters: Alba DeTamble, Philip Abshire, Lucille Abshire, Henry DeTamble, Mrs. Kim, Gomez, Charisse, Alicia Abshire, Dr. David Kendrick, Celia Attley, Richard DeTamble, Ingrid Carmichael, Clare Abshire, Mark Abshire
genres: Magical Realism, Fantasy, Adult, Chick Lit, Time Travel, Adult Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 1754775
places: Chicago, Illinois, Illinois, South Haven, Michigan, Michigan
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: MacAdam/Cage