| Description |
324 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
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 |
| Subject |
Time travel -- Fiction
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| SUBJECT |
Wisconsin -- Fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Dystopian fiction.
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Fiction.
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Dystopian fiction.
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Science fiction.
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Reading nook.
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| ISBN |
9780008295455 paperback |
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000829545X paperback |
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9780008295448 hardback |
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0008295441 hardback |
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