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Hazards of Time Travel - Large Print by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback)

Name: Hazards of Time Travel - Large Print by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback)
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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.
Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
432 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Dystopian

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A recklessly idealistic girl tests the limits of her oppressively controlled, dystopian world and is punished by being sent back in time to Wainscotia, Wisconsin, eighty years in the past, only to fall fatefully in love with a fellow exile.

Book Synopsis

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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"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 mid-western town, she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation"--but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and question-ing 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.

Review Quotes

"Joyce Carol Oates reinvents the genre to create a brilliant story of love and exile." - James Gleick

"Oates's writing has always seemed effortless: urgent, unafraid, torrential. She writes like a woman who walks into rough country and doesn't look back." - New York Times Book Review

"A master of sharp dialogue and vibrant descriptions, Oates casts a powerful spell." - People

"The most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious, and creative writer going, as far as I'm concerned." - Gillian Flynn

"Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic." - The Washington Post

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.0 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 432

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Dystopian

Publisher: Harper Large Print

Format: Paperback

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Language: English

Street Date: November 27, 2018

TCIN: 85106104

UPC: 9780062861009

Item Number (DPCI): 247-50-0896

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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