Dangers of Time Travel - Sci-Fi Thriller Novel | Explore Time Paradoxes & Alternate Realities - Perfect for Sci-Fi Fans & Book Clubs
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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. 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.
Customer Reviews
This is no introduction to Oates, but a piece seemingly sui generis, and eventful novel to travels through many genres & forms, and does each as well as the other. The subject matter is what makes it unusual. I've read 42 of her novels and this takes a leap into the future and the past. I predict there will be a certain section of readers who will view this boos alone. Typical Oates, she flies through language in a flowing, expectant manner, driving the reader along. Its structure involves pastiche at times, but the put-togethers make sense in the whole. The ending is one of her best and well worth waiting for if you wish to understand the book as a whole. There's that word again. As a writer, I find her "happy ending" to be so inverse it chills--or is it warmth after all? JCO leaves it open. A great, quick, futuristic/nostalgic, dystopian dream-read full of beautiful language and expression, character, and the human heart and mind. Odd & Perfect.
