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  Names: Means, David, 1961–

  Title: Hystopia: a novel / David Means.

  Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2015035421 | ISBN 9780865479135 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780374714871 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Nineteen seventies—Fiction. | United States—History—20th century—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Alternative histories (Fiction)

  Classification: LCC PS3563.E195 H97 2016 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

  LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035421

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  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraphs

  Editor’s Note

  Hystopia

  Big and Grand Rapids

  Psych Corps Building, Flint

  Down & Up

  Psych Corps Building, Flint

  Strange House

  The Zomboid

  Tree Hunting

  Old Schoolers

  Out of the Woods

  The Blue Pills

  Maps

  Billy-T

  The Blue Pill Kicks

  The Plan

  Termination Report

  Cong

  Rumors Afloat

  Return

  Killdeer

  Surety Is a Thing of the Past

  Reunification

  Homecoming

  The Fury Unites

  The Duel

  Duluth

  Rumors

  Author’s Note

  Acknowledgments

  Also by David Means

  A Note About the Author

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