Hazards of Time Travel

Hazards of Time Travel
Joyce Carol Oates

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive societyWhen 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.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.

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Version: 2018-10-11

Dedication (#u998e552d-0946-54c2-b5fe-8c122388e004)

For Stig Björkman,

and for

Charlie Gross

Epigraph (#u998e552d-0946-54c2-b5fe-8c122388e004)

A self is simply a device for representing a functionally unified system of responses.

B. F. Skinner, Science and Human Behavior

Contents

Cover (#u7576473f-f313-5483-b15f-272ada831dbd)

Title Page (#ufdcdaec0-4399-58fb-8999-7f5b97e520af)

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

I: Valedictorian

The Instructions (#u65d105f0-39e4-5651-9e90-221944db8b39)

Deletion (#ud1447902-abcc-5d38-84c8-e9b5bbbc5b8f)

The Warrant (#u4b835ac8-60cc-5202-b418-db8afb96d454)

“Good News!” (#u0380cbbd-95d2-529f-8032-b5e371fe6267)

The Arrest (#ubcc761e9-6d7a-5570-b511-467a8286f1dd)

“Disciplinary Measure” (#u08624cf1-765c-56a9-933c-f1f962b6fa62)

Exile: Zone 9 (#u3b05c023-ba3b-593f-9cb9-cea44c0f71bb)

II: Zone 9 – The Happy Place

Typewriter (#u695b2890-57ad-5202-b41b-b1e244db7f7e)

The Lost One (#uf088f606-c2f8-5668-9e6b-517d4ad80534)

Coed (#ue44f5020-82b9-54b6-bc24-bcd75db4f1bc)

Lost Friends (#litres_trial_promo)

He, Him (#litres_trial_promo)

Wolfman (#litres_trial_promo)

Lonely (#litres_trial_promo)

Possibly (#litres_trial_promo)

Dean’s List (#litres_trial_promo)

The Spell (#litres_trial_promo)

Orphan (#litres_trial_promo)