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Review Quotes:
PRAISE FOR THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
"[This] inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip."
--Entertainment Weekly
"Dreamy and dark... I got trapped inside the magic of its pages." -
Cosmopolitan
"Niffenegger plays ingeniously in her temporal hall of mirrors."--
The New Yorker
"A literary sensation."
-NPR
"A soaring celebration of the victory of love over time."
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Chicago Tribune
"Haunting... Compelling and unsettling." --
USA Today
"An intensely moving testament to the time-spanning power of true love."
-Marie Claire
"A powerfully original love story . . . [An] amazing trip."--
People
"A magical experience from start to finish."
-Elle
"A hymn to the pleasures of the ordinary and tangible, the sensuousness of the here and now."
-The Boston Globe
"A singular tale of a charming man with a funny condition (he slips in and out of time) and the woman who loves him. The setting, the city of Chicago, is luminous."
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San Francisco Chronicle
"As if love weren't complicated enough, debut author Niffenegger dreams up a happy couple plagued by a peculiar problem...It is to Niffenegger's credit that she avoids cheap shots and develops her innovative concept in some exceptionally strange and witty ways." --
Time Out New York
Contributor Bio:Niffenegger, Audrey
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives in Chicago and London. Her book art, prints, and paintings are included in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Newberry Library, and the Library of Congress, among others. In 2019, she founded Artists Book House, a non-profit center for the literary and book arts. Ms. Niffenegger was also one of the founders of the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. She was a Professor at Columbia College until 2015. She has published eight books, including the novels
The Time Traveler's Wife and
Her Fearful Symmetry, as well as the graphic novels
Raven Girl, The Night Bookmobile, and
Bizarre Romance (with Eddie Campbell).
The Time Traveler's Wife has been adapted into a film, an HBO television series, and a West End stage musical. Other adaptations include a ballet of
Raven Girl, which was created by the choreographer Wayne McGregor in 2013 for the Royal Opera House Ballet.
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