Hazards Of Time Travel

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

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  • : $32.99 AUD
  • : 9780008295455
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
  • : Fourth Estate
  • : July 2018
  • : 2.5 Centimeters X 15.5 Centimeters X 23.5 Centimeters
  • : November 2018
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Barcode 9780008295455
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Description

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.