Books : TIME AND AGAIN

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Finally on audio -- one of the most beloved tales of our time!

Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in Jack Finney's spellbinding story of a young man enlisted in a secret Government experiment.

Transported from the mid-twentieth century to New York City in the year 1882, Si Morley walks the fashionable "Ladies' Mile" of Broadway, is enchanted by the jingling sleigh bells in Central Park, and solves a 20th-century mystery by discovering its 19th-century roots. Falling in love with a beautiful young woman, he ultimately finds himself forced to choose between his lives in the present and the past.

A story that will remain in the listener's memory, Time and Again is a remarkable blending of the troubled present and a nostalgic past, made vivid and extraordinarily moving by the images of a time that was...and perhaps still is.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- A lovingly written time travel adventure. Recommended!
You know the drill: if you're going to write about time travel, you're going to run into paradoxes and other problems. How to give a believable explanation of the science of time travel? How do you go back in time to change something in the past, if by changing it, you wouldn't have ever needed to go back in time in the first place? It's enough to make your head explode (mine just did).

Fortunately, in Time and Again, Finney doesn't bother going through the gymnastics of trying to make ... Read More

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- Best Book Ever Read
My father gave me this book 25 years ago after my uncle had given it to him, both claiming it was the best book they ever read. I had lent this book out and never received it back so had to purchase a copy so I had one in my library.

I love this book like no book I have ever read. It completely sweeps you into the story, transcending time and full of details of history. The building the main character lives in, The Dakota,is where John Lennon lived and was killed in front of as he was ... Read More

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- Slow start but them had me hooked!
Like others here on Amazon, often I am reading two or three books at a time until one really "hooks" me. This particular book was a B or C book for awhile. The first 100 pages are frankly slow but then BAM! Once the hero goes back in time you are right there with him.

I'll give you a little warning on this one. If you are looking for sci-fi time travel and or a time machine, this might not be for you. If you just want to take a trip back in time to see what things were like and to solve ... Read More

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- A good novel, but not a good time travel science fiction.
The good part of this book is already repeated by other reviews, so I'll just mention the problem I faced when reading this book. The time traveling aspect of this novel is hard to swallow for a scifi reader. I'm not expecting explanation involving quantum mechanics or wormholes, seeing this novel is written in the 70's. But there're certain rules or logics when omitted make the enjoyment of a time travel story impossible for inquisitive readers like me.

The method of time travel in this book ... Read More

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- Favorite Book of All Time
I read this book years ago but still hold it as my favorite book of all time. I cannot think of another book that describes detail in a way that you feel you are not reading at all but actually watching a movie. I highly recommend this book!

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