Hystopia
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9780865479135
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| Grouped Work ID | 19a6a7fa-a0e8-275d-f7bf-044b4c125bba |
|---|---|
| Grouping Title | hystopia |
| Grouping Author | david means |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-30 03:09:03AM |
| Last Indexed | 2024-05-04 03:09:15AM |
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Means, David, 1961-
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Means, David
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Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction
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"By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and--martyred, heroic--is now in his third term. Twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam and begins to write a war novel--a book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five--about veterans who have their battlefield experiences "enfolded," wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy. In Eugene's fictive universe, veterans too damaged to be enfolded stalk the American heartland, reenacting atrocities on civilians and evading the Psych Corps, a federal agency dedicated to upholding the mental hygiene of the nation by any means necessary.This alternative America, in which a veteran tries to reimagine a damaged world, is the subject of Hystopia, the long-awaited first novel by David Means. The critic James Wood has written that Means's language "offers an exquisitely precise and sensuous register of an often crazy American reality." Means brings this talent to bear on the national trauma of the Vietnam era in a work that is outlandish, ruefully funny, and shockingly violent. Written in conversation with some of the greatest war narratives from the Iliad to the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter," Hystopia is a unique and visionary novel"--
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Wake County Public Libraries
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9780865479135
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2016
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Alternative histories (Fiction)
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
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Hystopia
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Hystopia / David Means
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Hystopia
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Nineteen seventies
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Nineteen seventies
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| ils:712452 | Book | Books | First edition | English | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2016 | 336 pages ; 22 cm |
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