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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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780062319609
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 336
  • Udgivet:
  • 8. Oktober 2019
  • Størrelse:
  • 136x25x203 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 246 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 30. Oktober 2024
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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.

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