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Of this new world / Allegra Hyde.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.Y365 A6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hyde, Allegra, author.
- Series:
- John Simmons short fiction award
- Iowa short fiction award
- The John Simmons short fiction award
- The Iowa short fiction award
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Utopias--Fiction.
- Utopias.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 123 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Allegra Hyde's debut story collection, Of This New World, offers a menagerie of utopias: real, imagined, and lost. Starting with the Garden of Eden and ending in a Mars colony, the stories wrestle with conflicts of idealism and practicality, communal ambition and individual kink. Stories jump between genres--from historical fiction to science fiction, realism to fabulism--but all ask those fundamental human questions: What do we do when we lose our utopia? What will we do to get it back? Over the course of twelve stories, Hyde writes with a mix of lyricism, humor, and masterful detail. A group of environmental missionaries seeks to start an ideal eco-society on an island in the Bahamas, only to unwittingly tyrannize the local inhabitants and disrupt the social ecosystem. The neglected daughter of a floundering hippie commune must adjust to conventional life with her ungroovy grandmother. A wounded veteran gets lost in erotic fantasies of his twin brother's life. Haunted by her years at a collegiate idyll, a young woman eulogizes a friendship. After indenturing his only son to the Shakers, an antebellum vegan turns to Louisa May Alcott's famous family for help. And in the final story, a down-and-out drug addict gets a second chance at life in a government-sponsored space population program, only to be flummoxed by erectile dysfunction. An unmissable debut, the collection charts the worlds born in our dreams and bred in hope"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- After the Beginning
- Shark Fishing
- Free Love
- VFW Post 1492
- Bury Me
- Syndication
- The Future Consequences of Present Actions
- Flowers for Prisoners
- Acid
- Ephemera
- Delight
- Americans on Mars!
- ISBN:
- 9781609384432
- 1609384431
- OCLC:
- 946463305
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