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.
Audiobook details
GenreDystopia, General Fiction, Science Fiction
Length8 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byAndi Arndt
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 27, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
25Chapter 25
2Chapter 2
26Chapter 26
3Chapter 3
27Chapter 27
4Chapter 4
28Chapter 28
5Chapter 5
29Chapter 29
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6Chapter 6
30Chapter 30
7Chapter 7
31Chapter 31
8Chapter 8
32Chapter 32
9Chapter 9
33Chapter 33
10Chapter 10
34Chapter 34
11Chapter 11
35Chapter 35
12Chapter 12
36Chapter 36
13Chapter 13
37Chapter 37
14Chapter 14
38Chapter 38
15Chapter 15
39Chapter 39
16Chapter 16
40Chapter 40
17Chapter 17
41Chapter 41
18Chapter 18
42Chapter 42
19Chapter 19
43Chapter 43
20Chapter 20
44Chapter 44
21Chapter 21
45Chapter 45
22Chapter 22
46Chapter 46
23Chapter 23
47Chapter 47
24Chapter 24
48Chapter 48
About the author
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.View all by Joyce Carol Oates
