num_pages: 352
description: By the early 1970s President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts andmartyred heroicis 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 novela book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Fiveabout 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.
language: English
title: Hystopia
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux