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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Hazards of time travel / Joyce Carol Oates. - London 4th Estate 2018. - 324 pages ; 24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9780008295455 000829545X 9780008295448 0008295441

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Time travel--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Wisconsin--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Dystopian fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.54