For me it was like a touch of nostalgia and I suspect it added to my enjoyment. I suspect for a generation who did not grow up in that world it must seem very alien. This is a book that takes place in a world of locks and keys, dial up telephones and typewriters. It was like another layer of time travel albeit one not intended by the author. The second level of enjoyment came from reading a book written in 1970. Time travel books are among my favorites even though this is a bit different from the usual. I really enjoyed it on two levels I found the story interesting. This book was such a trip – no pun intended. He wrote stories for magazines such as Collier’s, The Saturday Evening Post, and McCall’s, and is the author of ten novels, including the science fiction thriller The Body Snatchers, later published as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which served as the basis for multiple film adaptations. Jack Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1911 and lived in California. With digitally remastered art, fall in love with this refreshed classic all over again. Praised as “pure New York fun” by Alice Hoffman, Time and Again is admired for its rich, painstakingly researched descriptions of life in New York City more than a century ago, and for the swift adventure at its core. Aside from his thirst for experience, he has good reason to return to the past-his friend Kate has a curious, half-burned letter dated from that year, and he wants to trace the mystery.īut when Si begins to fall in love with a woman he meets in the past, he will be forced to choose between two worlds-forever. When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he jumps at the chance to leave his twentieth-century existence and step into New York City in January 1882.

Time and Again by Jack Finney