I downloaded this excellent book on the recommendation of none other than Stephen King. He feels it’s the best time travel novel he’s ever read.

Author Jack Finney (1911-1995) … penned two great, influential science-fiction novels: the 1955 alien invasion story “The Body Snatchers … and this 1970 subtle romance about time travel.

It’s a novel that many people hold close to their hearts, and like the movie “Somewhere in Time,” has the magic to allure you with the wonder of traveling back to a simpler time — 1880s New York in this case — and exploring in depth a world so unlike your own.

Finney, with meticulous detail and the support of numerous old photographs and drawings from the period (this is referred to as an “illustrated novel”) recreates New York in 1882, letting us and the main character, Si Morley, marvel as we walk over the old streets, see places where one day great skyscrapers will stand, gaze on a traffic jam of hansom cabs, discover the arm of the Statue of Liberty sitting in Madison Square awaiting the rest of its body, play old parlor games in a boarding house, and look at Fifth Avenue when it was a thin street of trees and apartments. …

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Robert Redford had hoped to make a film of it. Has not happened, as yet.