Description: "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 mid-western town, she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation"--but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and question-ing 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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