Hazards of Time Travel - Large Print by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>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</strong> </p><p>"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. </p><p>Arresting and visionary, <em>Hazards of Time Travel </em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>"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. </p><p>Arresting and visionary, <em>Hazards of Time Travel</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A master of sharp dialogue and vibrant descriptions, Oates casts a powerful spell."--<em>People</em><br><br>"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."--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"Joyce Carol Oates reinvents the genre to create a brilliant story of love and exile."--James Gleick<br><br>"Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic."--The Washington Post<br><br>"The most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious, and creative writer going, as far as I'm concerned."--Gillian Flynn<br>
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