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Hystopia

MP3 CD
(1 CD)
Product Number: MPCD2316
Released: 27 Oct, 2016
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781510058996
Narrator(s): Nicholas Techosky
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

At the 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. Any veterans too damaged to be enfolded roam at will, evading the Psych Corps and re-enacting atrocities on civilians. Hystopia highlights the crazy reality of trauma, both national and personal.

Author(s): David Means
Awards:LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
Original Publish Date: 27 Oct, 2016

All Formats/Editions

Playaway
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Author(s): David Means
Narrator(s): Nicholas Techosky
Product Number D5254
Released: 01 Jun, 2017
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510066021
CD
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Author(s): David Means
Narrator(s): Nicholas Techosky
Product Number CX3619
Released: 27 Oct, 2016
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510058989

Professional reviews

"Unique, deeply personal and visionary, an extraordinary work of fiction – longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. “Hystopia is a thrilling novel - daring, immensely readable and also unexpectedly funny. David Means is that lucky (and brilliant) writer: a man in full possession of a vision.” RICHARD FORD “A riveting, hypnotic dystopia of Vietnam combat veterans during the (fictional) second JFK administration. Amazing writing-not for the faint of heart.” JONATHAN SHAY, author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America."

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