An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s
resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society,
from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates
“Time travel” — and its hazards—are 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 — “Wainscotia, Wisconsin”—that
existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this
idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of
“rehabilitation”—but 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 Oates’s most
unexpected novel so far.
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