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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Means, David, 1961-     Subjects     Authors -- Fiction.     Veterans -- Fiction.     Psychic trauma -- Fiction.     Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction.     Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.     United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction     Browse Catalog     by author:      Means, David, 1961-       by title:      Hystopia / David Mea...       by call number:      FICTION MEA     Search the Web     Means, David, 1961-     Authors -- Fiction.     Veterans -- Fiction.     Psychic trauma -- Fiction.     Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction.     Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.     United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction       MARC Display

Hystopia / David Means. by Means, David, 1961- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Call #: FICTION MEA Subjects Authors -- Fiction.   Veterans -- Fiction.   Psychic trauma -- Fiction.   Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction.   Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.   United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction ISBN:  9780865479135 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  336 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "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 re-imagine 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."--From publisher. Genre:  Alternative histories (Fiction) Literary fiction. First novel. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION MEA Adult books Trace Add Copy to MyList

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