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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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Oates is at the top of her stunning form. -- Publishers Weekly on Black Water Oates is a literary force...One of her finest. -- Booklist (starred review) on A Book of American Martyrs Oates weaves a feeling of constant menace and paranoia throughout...A memorable novel. -- Publishers Weekly Oates probes the diabolical, shape-shifting nature of authoritarianism and the timeless valor of dissent. While in this clever, brain-twisting, Poe-like fable she looks to the past and the future to dramatize the vulnerability of the psyche, the fragility of freedom, and the catastrophic consequences of repressing intelligence, independence, and creativity, what Oates illuminates is the present. -- Booklist (starred review)

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Joyce Carol Oates is an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, short stories, plays, and novellas. She is the 2019 recipient of the $10,000 Jerusalem Prize, given to international writers whose body of work assert the freedom of the individual in society. She is also a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, among other major awards. Andi Arndt is a professional voice actor, the winner of a 2017 Audie Award for Best Romance, and winner of two Earphones Awards.

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