Helpful Score: 2
In The Time Traveler's Wife, Clare and Henry endure a unique relationship. Sometimes they are married. Sometimes they are not. Sometimes Clare is a little girl and Henry is an middle-aged man. Sometimes they are the same age. Sometimes Clare remembers their long history together, while for Henry it is as if he has only just met her.
These two people have the typical relationship except for one aspect: Henry has an unusually disease----spontaneous time travel.
One moment they will be sitting at the dinner table and the next moment Henry has simply vanished. He has traveled somewhere else in his lifetime. Clare will finish her meal and wait for him to come back. Later he will return, sometimes in good health, sometimes shaken from the dangers of traveling through time.
Is this novel a love story or science fiction story? It's a normal romance except for one thing: Clare endures Henry's chronal infirmity with nomality. She lives through his time travel episodes as if it were something more well-known like an epileptic fit. A true love exists between them.
What a beautiful love story and a heartbreaking tale. Definitely a must read. Despite a lot of time traveling, I didn't feel mixed up at all. The author, Audrey Niffenegger, does a great job of keeping the reader on track.
These two people have the typical relationship except for one aspect: Henry has an unusually disease----spontaneous time travel.
One moment they will be sitting at the dinner table and the next moment Henry has simply vanished. He has traveled somewhere else in his lifetime. Clare will finish her meal and wait for him to come back. Later he will return, sometimes in good health, sometimes shaken from the dangers of traveling through time.
Is this novel a love story or science fiction story? It's a normal romance except for one thing: Clare endures Henry's chronal infirmity with nomality. She lives through his time travel episodes as if it were something more well-known like an epileptic fit. A true love exists between them.
What a beautiful love story and a heartbreaking tale. Definitely a must read. Despite a lot of time traveling, I didn't feel mixed up at all. The author, Audrey Niffenegger, does a great job of keeping the reader on track.
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