DECEMBER 2018 - AudioFile
Narrator Andi Arndt makes the surreal seem absolutely real in this time-bending dystopian slow burn. In a near future, uniformity is mandated, free thought is discouraged, and history is scrubbed. Arndt portrays the confusion and terror of the reluctant heroine, who is flung back in time as punishment for questioning the status quo. As narrator, Arndt is so adept that she makes the lead character sound wistful for her former life in the present, where everyone is monitored and questions can get you killed. Plan on getting through this audiobook in one sitting. Once you start, you won’t be able to stop. A.R.F. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
From the Publisher
Joyce Carol Oates reinvents the genre to create a brilliant story of love and exile.” — James Gleick
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“A master of sharp dialogue and vibrant descriptions, Oates casts a powerful spell.” — People
“The most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious, and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned.” — Gillian Flynn
“Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic.” — The Washington Post
New York Times Book Review
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.
James Gleick
Joyce Carol Oates reinvents the genre to create a brilliant story of love and exile.
The Washington Post
Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic.
People
A master of sharp dialogue and vibrant descriptions, Oates casts a powerful spell.
Gillian Flynn
The most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious, and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned.
