Hazards Of Time Travel - Joyce Carol Oates

Fourth Estate - <p>An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society</p> <p>‘Unrelentingly disturbing’ Observer</p> <p>‘Taps deep into contemporary anxieties over the rise of surveillance, totalitarian governments and invasive technology’ Daily Mail</p> <p>‘Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic’ Washington Post</p> <p>When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she 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 she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating.</p> <p>Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery – and an oblique but powerful response to our current political climate.</p>