The Time Traveler's Wife [Anglais] [Relié]

This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life. This leads to some wonderful paradoxes. From his point of view, he first met his wife, Clare, when he was 28 and she was 20. She ran up to him exclaiming that she'd known him all her life. He, however, had never seen her before. But when he reaches his 40s, already married to Clare, he suddenly finds himself time travelling to Clare's childhood and meeting her as a 6-year-old. The book alternates between Henry and Clare's points of view, and so does the narration. Reed ably expresses the longing of the one always left behind, the frustrations of their unusual lifestyle, and above all, her overriding love for Henry. Likewise, Burns evokes the fear of a man who never knows where or when he'll turn up, and his gratitude at having Clare, whose love is his anchor. The expressive, evocative performances of both actors convey the protagonists' intense relationship, their personal quirks and their reminiscences, making this a fascinating audio.
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Although the title suggests that this is science fiction, Niffenegger's charming, emotionally charged novel is much more a love story. Told alternately from the viewpoints of time traveler Henry and his wife, Clare, it's highly enjoyable on audio. Readers Christopher Burns and Maggi-Meg Reed blend their respective chapters seamlessly. Each reader characterizes all roles within a chapter, and the depictions mesh beautifully. Both narrators characterize Korean friend Kimmy in a charmingly amusing voice and lend a light mood to the couple's daughter, Alba. Burns portrays the emotional chaos of Henry's life so genuinely as to cast the listener directly into his pain and joy. The abridged recording leaves one longing for more. J.J.B. 2004 Audie Award Finalist © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

On the surface, Henry and Clare Detamble are a normal couple living in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at the Newberry Library and Clare creates abstract paper art, but the cruel reality is that Henry is a prisoner of time. It sweeps him back and forth at its leisure, from the present to the past, with no regard for where he is or what he is doing. It drops him naked and vulnerable into another decade, wearing an age-appropriate face. In fact, it's not unusual for Henry to run into the other Henry and help him out of a jam. Sound unusual? Imagine Clare Detamble's astonishment at seeing Henry dropped stark naked into her parents' meadow when she was only six. Though, of course, until she came of age, Henry was always the perfect gentleman and gave young Clare nothing but his friendship as he dropped in and out of her life. It's no wonder that the film rights to this hip and urban love story have been acquired. Elsa Gaztambide
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"Tremendous grace and imagination . . . A love story without softness or flinchiing." --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

?Highly original first novel?Niffenegger has written a soaring love story illuminated by dozens of finely observed details and scenes?It is a fair tribute to [Niffenegger?s] skill and sensibility to say that the book leaves a reader with the impression of life?s riches and strangeness rather than of easy thrills.?
?Publishers Weekly, starred review

?An enchanting novel?beautifully crafted and as dazzlingly imaginative as it is dizzyingly romantic.?
?Scott Turow

?A powerfully original love story.?
?People

?Niffenegger creates real characters with flawed, human, loving characteristics and with real and extraordinary problems?.Niffeneger succeeds in telling a tender tale of love and allows the reader to rediscover an old fascination with the idea of time travel.?
?Winnipeg Free Press

?Beguiling, original debut? A delight.?
?The Bookseller, star choice

?This is an ambitious book?it can in its best moments enthrall and engage. It?s an unabashed, well-written love story.?
?The Globe and Mail

?Niffenegger keeps her readers? attention with a faultless ear for dialogue and with the freshness of her premise.?
?National Post

?[An] oddly compelling and original formulation?. This is Niffenegger?s first novel, yet it is remarkably free of many of the common pitfalls of a freshman effort. ? Niffenegger keeps her readers? attention with a faultless ear for dialogue and with the freshness of her premise. ? Her touch for comedy is assured, and acts to leaven more sober aspects of the novel.?
?The National Post

?Niffenegger?s storytelling is bold, confident and entrancing. Her prose is warm and inviting. And her characters are created with heartfelt sincerity. There?s a lot to love in this book?.The Time Traveller?s Wife is an engrossing read that keeps both emotions and intellect entertained.?
?The Gazette

?[Niffenegger] is a hypnotic weaver; her dimensional characters are blended in a tightly woven design that make this first novel a work of art. It leaves one in awe, and appreciative?.Do yourself a favour: read the book and suspend your notions of time.?
? Independently reviewed

?This is a seamless, soaring love story?.As the last pages of this 500-page novel loomed closer, I felt all of the wonderful emotions of having read an unabashed, brilliantly written love story?.The Time Traveller?s Wife is not a Christmas story, but it is the perfect read for the holiday. Like the emotions of the season it will leave you laughing, crying, and babbling incoherently to your family and friends who will, do doubt, attempt to steal the book away when you aren?t looking. Be warned. Buy that special someone their own copy ? now.?
?The Sun Times (Owen Sound)

?[H]ighly original novel . . . The Time Traveller?s Wife has it all: an innovative plot, intriguing characters and compelling writing.?
? Chatelaine

?Niffenegger?s storytelling is bold and entrancing. Her prose is warm and inviting. And her characters are created with heartfelt sincerity. There?s a lot to love in this book?.The Time Traveler?s Wife is an engrossing read that keeps both emotions and intellect entertained.?
?Times-Colonist (Victoria)

'So here's the next The Lovely Bones... a rare book.'
?David Sexton, Evening Standard

'The Time Traveler's Wife is a very old love story: wonky, sexy, incredible... but charmingly, inventively retold.'
?The Times (London)

?Niffenegger got me to love this book. What am I saying? She got me to adore this book? Pick up Niffenegger?s book and you?ll experience the visceral thrill that only a few novels provide.?
?Charlie Lee-Potter, Independent on Sunday

?A forceful romance with a fascinating science-fiction wrinkle.?
?The Sunday Times (UK)

?This is alarmingly close to perfection.?
?Scotland on Sunday

'It might seem a little early in the year to be claiming we've found 2004's must-read novel, but that's just how highly we rate The Time Traveler's Wife, which challenges conceptions of time and space... A love affair that will totally capture your heart.'
?Glamour (UK)

'The Time Traveler's Wife is a beautifully written, compulsive look at a couple trying to live an ordinary life in extraordinary circumstances.'
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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. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

“Highly original first novel…Niffenegger has written a soaring love story illuminated by dozens of finely observed details and scenes…It is a fair tribute to [Niffenegger’s] skill and sensibility to say that the book leaves a reader with the impression of life’s riches and strangeness rather than of easy thrills.” -- Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The Time Traveler's Wife is a Houdini box of a novel, filled with spring latches and trapdoors. Henry and Clare's love affair zigs and zags across decades -- at times touching, childish, sexy, tragic but always true." -- Caroline Preston, author of Lucy Crocker 2.0 and Jacke by Josie

"Niffenegger imagines this story of an accidental time traveler and the love of his life with grace and humanity. Fiercely inventive, slyly ambitious, and lovingly told, The Time Traveler's Wife sparkles as it fearlessly explores the delicate interplay of love and time." -- Anne Ursu, author of The Disapparation of James and Spilling Clarence

"The Time Traveler's Wife is an odd and enchanting love story... a story of intense devotion filtered through time -- of two people who share the best and worst of growing up as soulmates in a world that can change in an instant." -- Charles Dickinson, author of A Shortcut in Time

"Cleverly executed and tastefully furnished... a first from fine newcomer Niffenegger" -- Kirkus Reviews --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Centre for Book and Paper Arts. The Time Traveler’s Wife is her first novel.