NP new book alert

[Doug Millison]

Novelist John Reed, author of A Still Small Voice
(Dell, $13.95) and
the forthcoming volume, Snowball's Chance (Roof Books,
$20), blames
George Orwell for the September 11 attacks. Snowball's
Chance parodies
Orwell's Animal Farm, dragging it kicking and
screaming into the 21st
century.

In Reed's version, Snowball the pig returns to Animal
Farm as a
convert to 21st-century-style corporate capitalism,
and quickly sets
out to bring Napoleon's proto-Soviet farm in line with
his own vision
of a New Farm Order.

On Orwell's original farm, the saying was that all
animals are equal,
but some are more equal than others; in Reed's update,
it becomes the
very Republican-sounding "All animals are born
equal--what they become
is their own affair." Or, as the animals put it later,
"The scope of
what we can have is only limited by the scope of what
we can want!"
Instead of raising a single mill tower, as prescribed
in Orwell's
original, the animals raise a second mill--creating
the, er...Twin
Mills.

A group of beavers living in a nearby wood become
religious fanatics
and take offense at the two towers...the rest is,
history, so to
speak.

Reed and Snowball's Chance feed from The New York
Press here
http://nypress.com/15/40/news&columns/publishing.cfm


from:
PW Daily for Booksellers (October 3, 2002)





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