{"product_id":"9780062861009","title":"Hazards of Time Travel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHazards of Time Travel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArresting and visionary, \u003cem\u003eHazards of Time Travel \u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Joyce Carol Oates reinvents the genre to create a brilliant story of love and exile.”\u003cbr\u003e“Oates’s writing has always seemed effortless: urgent, unafraid, torrential. She writes like a woman who walks into rough country and doesn’t look back.”\u003cbr\u003e“A master of sharp dialogue and vibrant descriptions, Oates casts a powerful spell.”\u003cbr\u003e“The most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious, and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned.”\u003cbr\u003e“Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062861009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"HarperLuxe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41087000608974,"sku":"9780062861009","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062861009.jpg?v=1648955514","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062861009","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}