Finney, Jack (pseudonym of Walter Braden Finney). FROM TIME TO TIME. Finney, Jack (pseudonym of Walter Braden Finney). THE WOODROW WILSON DIME. New York: Simon and Schuster, []. Octavo, cloth. First edition. (#) More Details about THE . A humorous parallel world fantasy. Finney's recurrent theme of a lost past or alternate now where life and love are somehow better is most fully realized in THE WOODROW WILSON DIME and TIME AND AGAIN (), the latter being perhaps his most important novel. His lost past themed s stories influenced the work of Rod Serling, Richard Matheson and Stephen King ("The Ledge" is a homage to . 9 rows · · Title: The Woodrow Wilson Dime. Title: The Woodrow Wilson Dime Title Record # Author: Author: Jack Finney.
Finney's further books were smoothly told, more involving, arguably less pertinently sf. The Woodrow Wilson Dime (30 January Saturday Evening Post as "The Other Wife"; vt "The Coin Collector" in I Love Galesburg in the Springtime, coll ; much exp ) is a Parallel-Worlds novel. In "The Woodrow Wilson Dime" () Mr. Finney once again explored the possibilities of time travel. The dime of the title allows the novel's hero to enter a parallel world in which he achieves fame by composing the musicals of Oscar Hammerstein and inventing the zipper. by. Jack Finney. · Rating details · ratings · 17 reviews. Ben is a struggling New York advertising copywriter, stuck in a dull marriage. Then one day he finds a Woodrow Wilson dime, which leads him into a parallel world of his dreams where he runs his own ad agency and shares life with a dazzling red-haired bombshell.
Suddenly presto-change-o, a Woodrow Wilson dime projects him into a blissful alternate world where he's the big boss and is married to his old voluptuous girlfriend Tessie. The only flaw in this future is that Helen turns up engaged to a nefarious lawyer, Custer Huppfelt, and Ben discovers that he's still in love with her. In "The Woodrow Wilson Dime" () Mr. Finney once again explored the possibilities of time travel. The dime of the title allows the novel's hero to enter a parallel world in which he achieves fame by composing the musicals of Oscar Hammerstein and inventing the zipper. Three by Finney by Finney, Jack. Publication date Topics Science fiction, American The Woodrow Wilson dime -- Marion's wall -- The night people Access.
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