Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates audiobook

Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel

By Joyce Carol Oates
Read by Andi Arndt

HarperAudio, HarperCollins 9780062319593

Unabridged

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    ISBN: 9781982552961

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Runtime: 8.81 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“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)
“Oates weaves a feeling of constant menace and paranoia throughout…A memorable novel. ” —Publishers Weekly
“Multi-award-winning author Oates creates a world in which cherished American freedoms have disappeared and technology has risen to include time travel. And in the end, the will to survive outweighs the search for truth. Readers of dystopian fiction will enjoy wrapping their minds around this story.” —Library Journal
“Oates is a literary force…One of her finest.” —Booklist (starred review) on A Book of American Martyrs
“Oates is at the top of her stunning form.” —Publishers Weekly on Black Water

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Author Bio: Joyce Carol Oates

Author Bio: Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to “a master of the thriller and noir literary genre.”

Details

Details

Available Formats : Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 8.81
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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