Dangers of Time Travel - Sci-Fi Thriller Novel | Explore Alternate Realities & Consequences | Perfect for Book Clubs & Sci-Fi Fans

This is no introduction to Oates, but a piece seemingly sui generis, and eventful novel to travels through many genres & forms, and does each as well as the other. The subject matter is what makes it unusual. I've read 42 of her novels and this takes a leap into the future and the past. I predict there will be a certain section of readers who will view this boos alone. Typical Oates, she flies through language in a flowing, expectant manner, driving the reader along. Its structure involves pastiche at times, but the put-togethers make sense in the whole. The ending is one of her best and well worth waiting for if you wish to understand the book as a whole. There's that word again. As a writer, I find her "happy ending" to be so inverse it chills--or is it warmth after all? JCO leaves it open. A great, quick, futuristic/nostalgic, dystopian dream-read full of beautiful language and expression, character, and the human heart and mind. Odd & Perfect.