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  • Hazards of Time Travel

  • A Novel
  • Written by: Joyce Carol Oates
  • Narrated by: Andi Arndt
  • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Hazards of Time Travel

Written by: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
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Publisher's 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 80 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.

©2018 The Ontario Review, Inc. (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers

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got me through Hurricane Fiona!

my review won't do this justice but I'll try. Oates is like breathing. so easy to get into, so relaxing but also stimulating. you can float along or do complex breathing that takes you to a deeper level of living. this book takes you places and gives you points to ponder without being heavy-handed. a universally relatable protagonist. highly recommend

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