All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.īook Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 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.Ĭlare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals–steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. 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. Theme: Love, Time, Fate Vs Free Will, Family, Memory and the Past, Versions of Realityīook Summary: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerĪudrey 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.
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