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008			150924t20162016nyu 000 f eng
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092			_aMeans, _bDavid
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMeans, David, _d1961- _eauthor. _9301812
245	1	0	_aHystopia / _cDavid Means.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2016.
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a336 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _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 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"-- _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. _9135267
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y20th century _vFiction. _990096
655		7	_aAlternative histories (Fiction) _2lcgft _951301
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