AUDREY NIFFENEGGER - The Time Traveler's Wife

London England, Jonatha Cape, 2004. First Edition First Impression, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0224071912 Hadrback Hardback. First Edition.This extraordinary, magical first novel is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnised with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic cloch 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. This book depicts the effects of tieme travel on Henry and Clare's marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unforlds 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.519 pp.