Of this new world / Allegra Hyde.

Author/Creator:

Hyde, Allegra, author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections.

Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]

Series:

John Simmons short fiction award.
Iowa short fiction award.
The John Simmons short fiction award
The Iowa short fiction award

Format/Description:

Book
123 pages ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Utopias -- Fiction.
Utopias.

Form/Genre:

Psychological fiction.
Science fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.

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
9781609384449

OCLC:

946463305

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