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003 DLC
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008 150924s2016 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015035421
020 $a9780865479135 (hardcover)
020 $z9780374714871 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aPS3563.E195$bH97 2016
082 00 $a813/.54$223
084 $aFIC019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMeans, David,$d1961-
245 10 $aHystopia :$ba novel /$cDavid Means.
250 $aFirst edition.
263 $a1604
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2016.
300 $apages ; cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and--martyred, heroic--is now in his third term. Twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam and begins to write a war novel--a book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five--about veterans who have their battlefield experiences "enfolded," wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy. In Eugene's fictive universe, veterans too damaged to be enfolded stalk the American heartland, reenacting atrocities on civilians and evading the Psych Corps, a federal agency dedicated to upholding the mental hygiene of the nation by any means necessary.This alternative America, in which a veteran tries to reimagine a damaged world, is the subject of Hystopia, the long-awaited first novel by David Means. The critic James Wood has written that Means's language "offers an exquisitely precise and sensuous register of an often crazy American reality." Means brings this talent to bear on the national trauma of the Vietnam era in a work that is outlandish, ruefully funny, and shockingly violent. Written in conversation with some of the greatest war narratives from the Iliad to the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter," Hystopia is a unique and visionary novel"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A visionary first novel taking place in an alternate version of Vietnam-War-era America"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aNineteen seventies$vFiction.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y20th century$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aAlternative histories (Fiction)$2gsafd
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/135/9780865479135/image/lgcover.9780865479135.jpg