Hazards of time travel [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A Novel

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. "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 Når en idealistisk jente i en dystopisk fremtidssamfunn tester grensene i en strengt kontrollert verden, blir hun straffet ved å bli sendt tilbake i tid og til regionen Wainscota i Wisconsin, som eksisterte åtti år tidligere. I denne idylliske byen i Midtvesten skal hun rehabiliteres. Hun forelsker seg i en gutt som også er i eksil og snart begynner jenta å stille spørsmål ved begrensingene som blir satt for henne. «Hazards of Time Travel» er en historie om grusomme oppdagelser og kjærlighet. Romanen er samtidig et skråblikk og et kraftig tilsvar på dagens politiske situasjon i USA. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS A recklessly idealistic girl tests the limits of her oppressively controlled, dystopian world and is punished by being sent back in time to Wainscotia, Wisconsin, eighty years in the past, only to fall fatefully in love with a fellow exile.