Hystopia
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Hystopia

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Hystopia

About this book

At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene by any means necessary. Soldiers returning from Vietnam have their battlefield traumas "enfolded"-wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy-while veterans too damaged to be enfolded roam at will in Michigan, evading the Psych Corps and reenacting atrocities on civilians.

This destabilized, alternate version of American history is the vision of the twenty-two-year-old veteran Eugene Allen, who has returned from Vietnam to write the book at the center of Hystopia, the long-awaited first novel by David Means. In Hystopia, Means brings his full talent to bear on the crazy reality of trauma, both national and personal. Outlandish and tender, funny and violent, timely and historical, Hystopia invites us to consider whether our traumas can ever be truly overcome. The answers it offers are wildly inventive, deeply rooted in its characters, and wrung from the author's own heart.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9780571330140
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Author and Editor’s Notes
  7. Half Title Page
  8. Contents
  9. BIG AND GRAND RAPIDS
  10. PSYCH CORPS BUILDING, FLINT
  11. DOWN AND UP
  12. PSYCH CORPS BUILDING, FLINT
  13. STRANGE HOUSE
  14. THE ZOMBOID
  15. TREE HUNTING
  16. OLD SCHOOLERS
  17. OUT OF THE WOODS
  18. THE BLUE PILLS
  19. MAPS
  20. BILLY-T
  21. THE BLUE PILL KICKS
  22. THE PLAN
  23. TERMINATION REPORT
  24. CONG
  25. RUMORS AFLOAT
  26. RETURN
  27. KILLDEER
  28. SURETY IS A THING OF THE PAST
  29. REUNIFICATION
  30. HOMECOMING
  31. THE FURY UNITES
  32. THE DUEL
  33. DULUTH
  34. RUMORS
  35. Author’s Note
  36. Acknowledgements
  37. About the Author
  38. Also by David Means
  39. Copyright

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