Anyhow, Tom winds up as a high school history teacher in London in the present day. Bullets can kill him, but viruses and diseases can’t. He is one of a handful of people who age slowly and have an almost unlimited life span. The plot is thus: Tom Hazard is 439 years old but looks more like 40. In British author Matt Haig’s hands, the move is a clever little trick for a funny and poignant yarn that is tinged with melancholy. So that means that time travel is a forward-constant, not something you can go backwards toward. But there’s a twist! Instead of people hopping to and fro in cars, whether it be a DeLorean or a 1920s Ford Model A, in this book time travelers are human beings who age over centuries. The film rights to the book was acquired and s motion picture is on the process of production, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.I’m always game for a good time-travel book (have I said this before?) and How to Stop Time is, indeed, a novel in that genre. According to her, while “ "The Humans” was warmhearted, sharply observed and often laugh-out-loud funny, funny enough to forgive Haig’s alien his regrettable fondness for fortune-cookie philosophy”, “leaving the reader craving some of the sharp-edged black humor that made “The Humans” such a delight.” Meanwhile, a review by English writer Clare Clark on The New York Times compared the book to Matt Haig’s previous book “The Humans”.
On The Guardian, How to Stop Time was depicted as: “The energy and zip of this book are hard to resist”
NPR considered it as “a meditation on the tick and tock of time and mortality.” How to Stop Time received reviews from sources including: newspapers such as NPR, The Guardian, and other authors. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.Īs the story unfolds, Tom has to decide whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present, while constantly being under the supervision of the Albatross Society, the secretive group which claims to protect people like him. Tom was born in 1581 in France and has lived history alongside infamous historical characters such as Shakespeare, Captain Cook, and Fitzgerald. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but due to a rare condition, he has been alive for centuries. Tom Hazard is a high school history teacher who has just moved back to London. How to stop time is a fictional novel written by English writer Matt Haig and published in 2017.
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