Of this new world / Allegra Hyde.

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Hyde, Allegra [Browse]
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English
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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
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123 pages ; 24 cm.

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    "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 ((paperback))
    • 1609384431 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016008377
    OCLC
    946463305
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