Hystopia

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Named a Best of the Year Selection by Kirkus Reviews, the San Francisco Chronicle, Commonweal Magazine, and the Library of Michigan

In his widely acclaimed and ambitious debut novel, David Means, one of America’s greatest living short story writers, has produced a disorienting yet mesmerizing novel-within-a-novel. Twenty-two year old Eugene Allen, a Vietnam War veteran, has penned a revisionist history of the period that, channeled through Means, explores t...