TIME ON MY HANDS: A Novel with Photographs - Hardcover

Delacorte, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684826518 ISBN 13: 9780684826516

Publisher: Scribner, 1997

Synopsis

A physicist who has developed a time machine offers travel writer Gabriel Prince the opportunity to go back in time if he will change history by keeping Ronald Reagan from becoming America's fortieth president. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

Here's a genre you don't run into every day--a political time-travel novel. If you enjoyed A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, or Back to the Future you'll definitely want to give this a tumble. A brilliant physicist has discovered a time machine from the 22d century languishing in an obscure Paris technical museum, but is too old to try it out himself. Fortunately he meets up with a bored travel writer (our hero) who is up for the mission. The physicist, a political liberal, has only one request of him: when you go back in time, divert B-movie actor Ronald Reagan from becoming president. The writer makes the trip (several times), meets Reagan (several times), but ... well, let's just say changing the entire course of modern American politics isn't easy. And there's the additional problem of falling in love with a luscious blonde who's been dead since 1938.

About the Author:

Peter Delacorte is the author of Games of Chance and Levantine. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Bonnie, two very strange cats, and one extremely well-adjusted dog.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684826518
• ISBN 13: 9780684826516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400