Hazards of time travel : a novel /
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Hazards of time travel : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates. - First HarperLuxe edition. - 417 pages (large print) ; 23 cm -
"'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."--Back cover.
9780062861009 006286100X
Time travel--Fiction.
Wisconsin--Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Time-travel fiction.
Hazards of time travel : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates. - First HarperLuxe edition. - 417 pages (large print) ; 23 cm -
"'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."--Back cover.
9780062861009 006286100X
Time travel--Fiction.
Wisconsin--Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Time-travel fiction.