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Hedyphagetica

Austryn Wainhouse

3/5 ( ratings)

Hedyphagetica is a powerful political satire, a ribald comedy, and a desperate love letter to a woman named Aimee, "Oh my, yes, I am afraid that in the beginning was the word . . ." So begins the narrator's account of his homeland, Gron, a country whose militaristic and authoritarian government bombs its own people at air shows--to keep them awed--and leads them into pointless and interminable wars to keep them properly motivated. Employing all the tools of modernity to achieve a medieval brand of repression, Gron is a grim place. The narrator, attempting a kind of history, tells his story through the life of Dr. Samuel Johnson , an everyman who suffers every indignity his government can offer . A strange and beautiful book, this is a bleak account of country that may, indeed, exist.

Language: English

Pages: 217

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: April 01, 2007

ISBN: 1564784673

ISBN 13: 9781564784674

Hedyphagetica

Austryn Wainhouse

3/5 ( ratings)

Hedyphagetica is a powerful political satire, a ribald comedy, and a desperate love letter to a woman named Aimee, "Oh my, yes, I am afraid that in the beginning was the word . . ." So begins the narrator's account of his homeland, Gron, a country whose militaristic and authoritarian government bombs its own people at air shows--to keep them awed--and leads them into pointless and interminable wars to keep them properly motivated. Employing all the tools of modernity to achieve a medieval brand of repression, Gron is a grim place. The narrator, attempting a kind of history, tells his story through the life of Dr. Samuel Johnson , an everyman who suffers every indignity his government can offer . A strange and beautiful book, this is a bleak account of country that may, indeed, exist.

Language: English

Pages: 217

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: April 01, 2007

ISBN: 1564784673

ISBN 13: 9781564784674

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