The Time Traveler's Wife

Plot summary
Using alternating first-person perspectives, the novel tells the stories of Henry DeTamble (born 1963), a librarian at the Newberry Library in Chicago,and his wife, Clare Abshire (born 1971), an artist who makes papersculptures. Henry has a rare genetic disorder, which comes to be knownas Chrono-Displacement, that causes him to involuntarily travel throughtime. When 20-year-old Clare meets 28-year-old Henry at the NewberryLibrary in 1991 at the opening of the novel, he has never seen herbefore, although she has known him most of her life.
Henry begins time traveling at the age of five, jumping forward andbackward relative to his own timeline. When he leaves, where he goes,or how long his trips will last are all beyond his control. Hisdestinations are tied to his subconscious—he most often travels toplaces and times related to his own history. Certain stimuli such as stresscan trigger Henry's time traveling; he often goes jogging to keep calmand remain in the present. He also searches out pharmaceuticals in thefuture that may be able to help control his time traveling. He alsoseeks the advice of a geneticist, Dr. Kendrick. Henry cannot takeanything with him into the future or the past; he always arrives nakedand then struggles to find clothing, shelter and food. He amasses anumber of survival skills including lock-picking, self defense andpickpocketing. Much of this he learns from older versions of himself.

"It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing wherehe is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be the one who stays."

—Clare[1]

Once their timelines converge "naturally" at the library—their firstmeeting in his chronology—Henry starts to travel to Clare's childhoodand adolescence in South Haven, Michigan,beginning in 1977 when she is six years old. On one of his early visits(from her perspective), Henry gives her a list of the dates he willappear and she writes them in a diary so she will remember to providehim with clothes and food when he arrives. During another visit, heinadvertently reveals that they will be married in the future. Overtime they develop a close relationship. At one point, Henry helps Clarefrighten and humiliate a boy who abused her. Clare is last visited inher youth by Henry in 1989, on her eighteenth birthday, during whichthey make love for the first time. They are then separated for twoyears until their meeting at the library.
Clare and Henry marry, but Clare has trouble bringing a pregnancy toterm because of the genetic anomaly Henry may presumably be passing onto the fetus. After six miscarriages, Henry wishes to save Clare further pain and has a vasectomy.However a version of Henry from the past visits Clare one night andgets her pregnant; she subsequently gives birth to a daughter, Alba.Alba is diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement as well but, unlike Henry,she has some control over her destinations when she time travels.Before she is born, Henry travels to the future and meets histen-year-old daughter on a school field trip and learns that he diedwhen she was five years old.
When he is 43, during what is to be his last year of life, Henrytime travels to a Chicago parking garage on a frigid winter night wherehe is unable to find shelter. As a result of the hypothermia and frostbitehe suffers, his feet are amputated when he returns to the present.Henry and Clare both know that without the ability to escape when hetime travels, Henry will certainly die within his next few jumps. OnNew Year's Eve 2006 Henry time travels into the middle of the Michigan woods in 1984 and is accidentally shot by Clare's brother, a scene foreshadowed earlier in the novel. Henry returns to the present and dies in Clare's arms.
Clare is devastated by Henry's passing. She later finds a letterfrom Henry asking her to "stop waiting" for him, but which describes amoment in her future when she will see him again. The last scene in thebook takes place when Clare is 82 years old and Henry is 43. She iswaiting for Henry, as she has done most of her life, and when hearrives they clasp each other for what may or may not be the last time.

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呼，今天终于把书赶着看完了，因为后面很紧张啦~~~ = =

呃，也是有点sad sad的故事，但是故事无可否认是很特别的。
我最感惊叹的就是clare怀孕的经历，orz好……恐怖。（是很奇怪吧？奇妙？奇特？= =）

一开始的故事带着我走（读）得很顺利，中间有一阵子让我有些闷的，过后知道henry要死，我又紧张起来了。哈哈。

呃，我觉得喜欢这类文学的，一定要看吧！哪一类？呃，有点点特别，有点点伤感的故事……嗯。

我看戏的~
clare怀孕到一半她的孩子去time travel =="
henry在森林时被猎人误认为是鹿~
然后就开枪~
过后又飞回去~
要死时令一个henry在门外看着~
身体慢慢消失~
最后门上留下了一个手印~
[看了几遍还再看==~]

我看戏的~
clare怀孕到一半她的孩子去time travel =="
henry在森林时被猎人误认为是鹿~
然后就开枪~
过后又飞回去~
要死时令一个henry在门外看着~
身体慢慢消失~
最后门上留下了一个手印~
[看了几遍还再看==~] ...
更木。剑八 发表于 2010-1-24 11:18 PM

我看书的，而且是英文，我的想象或许是有点残（cacat）的。
不过我真的很喜欢这种奇怪的画面= =哈哈哈。
唉，henry死到很可怜啊，知道自己几时会死应该很惨吧！
之前就猜到他会死，我还一度猜他自杀= =呵呵。
就因为他的死，让我离不开书，从他自己见到她女儿知道自己在女儿5岁死开始，
我就追不停一直读下去。等不及去看最后一页了，how sad= =