Snowball's Chance (Neversink)

Reed, John

ISBN 10: 1612191258 / ISBN 13: 9781612191256

Published by Melville House, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Snowball's Chance (Neversink)
• Publisher: Melville House
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1612191258
• ISBN 13: 9781612191256
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This unauthorized companion to George Orwell's Animal Farm is a controversial parable about September 11th by one of fiction's most inventive and provocative writers.

Written in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, Snowball's Chance is an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell's Animal Farm, in which exiled pig Snowball returns to the farm, takes charge, and implements a new world order of untrammeled capitalism. Orwell's "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" has morphed into the new rallying cry: "All animals are born equal--what they become is their own affair."

A brilliant political satire and literary parody, John Reed's Snowball's Chance caused an uproar on publication in 2002, denounced by Christopher Hitchens, and barely dodging a lawsuit from the Orwell estate. Now, a decade later, with America in wars on many fronts, readers can judge anew the visionary truth of Reed's satirical masterpiece.

About the Author

Author of the novels, A Still Small Voice  (Delacorte Press / Delta), The Whole (Simon & Schuster / Pocket / MTV Books), the SPD bestseller, Snowball's Chance (Roof Books / Melville House), All The World's A Grave: A New Play By William Shakespeare (Penguin Books / Plume), and Tales of Woe (MTV Press); published in Art in America, the PEN Poetry Series, the Believer, the Daily Beast, Gawker, Slate, the Paris Review, Playboy, the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, Vice, The New York Times, Harpers and many other venues; included in 2015's Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin).