At the bitter end of the 1960s, upon his return home from combat in the Vietnam War, twenty-two-year old Eugene Allen writes a novel called HYSTOPIA. It is set in a strangely destabilized historical moment, where President Kennedy is entering his third term in office, and a new federal agency maintains the mental health of returning soldiers by wiping their memories through drugs and therapy, while those beyond help roam at will, re-enacting the atrocities they have witnessed. Outlandish and tender, funny and violent, timely and historical, Hystopia is a wild, gonzo experience about the nature of trauma, homecoming, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
| ISBN: | 9780571330133 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2017 |
| Author: | David Means |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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