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The
2005 Award
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The
Time Traveler's Wife
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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Time Traveller'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 from his life, past and future. His disappearances are
spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. The novel 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 not control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, where she teaches writing, letterpress printing, and fine edition book production. She shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife is her first novel. |
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