Hystopia

Hystopia
AuthorDavid Means
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication placeUnited States
Published in English
April 19, 2016
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
ISBN9780865479135

Hystopia is a 2016 novel by David Means. Literary critic Christian Lorentzen described the novel as "a counterfactual narrative by a Vietnam veteran, named Eugene Allen about his experience in a therapeutic, psychedelics-based trauma recovery program initiated, in the novel's alternate history, by John F. Kennedy."[1] In July 2016, it was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.

  1. ^ "The Best Books of 2016 (So Far)". Vulture. 2016-06-29. Retrieved 2016-10-28.