About Time
12 Short Stories
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4.0 • 16 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
From the author of Time and Again and From Time to Time comes a collection of twelve moving stories featuring time travel.
About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape—through time travel—doesn't always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.
Customer Reviews
Jack Finney, an Underappreciated, Gifted Artist
Jack Finney is one of the most underrated authors of the Twentieth Century. The central themes in his work involve the disenchantment of mid-career managers, how the era from 1880 to 1913 was an ideal time to be alive, and that the rhythms of time can be disrupted. The main body of his work were short stories that capture the spirit of mid century New York City, small-town Mid West, and his beloved Mill Valley, California. He is an astute observer of human behavior, and his economical descriptive style proves that brevity can, indeed, be quite be complex. These stories transport the reader to earlier, simpler times and question whether “progress” is always better. As with other Jack Finney works, I savored each page and was sad to reach the end of tule last story.