Hazards of Time Travel

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.

Un roman ingenios, distopian, al rezistentei unei tinere impotriva constrangerilor unei societati opresive, din imaginatia inventiva a lui Joyce Carol Oates „Calatoria in timp” - si pericolele sale - sunt facute literal in acest uimitor roman nou in care o fata idealista nesabuita indrazneste pentru a testa perimetrele lumii sale strans controlate (viitoare) si este pedepsita prin trimiterea inapoi in timp intr-o regiune din America de Nord - „Wainscotia, Wisconsin” - care a existat cu optzeci de ani inainte.