An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young womanโs resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates
โTime travelโ โ and its hazardsโare made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America โ โWainscotia, Wisconsinโโthat existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of โrehabilitationโโbut cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating.
Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oatesโs most unexpected novel so far.
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