Snowball's Chance

Snowball's Chance

"Snowball's Chance" (Roof Books, 2002/03), was a controversial update of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" written by John Reed in which Snowball the pig returns to the Manor Farm, after many years absence, to install capitalism, which has its own pitfalls. The novel raised the ire of the George Orwell estate and the political right wing. [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/27/wfarm27.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/11/27/ixworld.html News - Telegraph ] ] Led by Christopher Hitchens, [ [http://www.nypress.com/15/40/news&columns/publishing.cfm New York Press - JOHN STRAUSBAUGH ] ] Marxists and Orwell admirers also objected to the work. [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/11/27/dl2703.xml Kill the beavers! - Telegraph ] ] A "New York Times" article about a hostile letter sent to the publisher from the Orwell estate precipitated a journalistic and online debate about the book. [ [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40711FB3A5D0C768EDDA80994DA404482 A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell - New York Times ] ] The author, John Reed, has published two other novels, "A Still Small Voice" (Delacorte, 2000) and "The Whole" (MTV, Simon & Schuster, 2005). A new work, "All The World's A Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare" is forthcoming in fall 2008 from Penguin Books. The work draws lines from the Shakespeare canon and reassembles them into an original tragedy, featuring Shakespeare's tragic characters. [ [http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082008/gossip/pagesix/from_bard_to_verse_118962.htm From Bard To Verse] , Page Six, "New York Post", July 8, 2008.]

See also

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* All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare

External links

* [http://roofbooks.com/book/?GCOI=93780100836410 Publisher's website]
* [http://easyreeder.com/ Author's website]
* [http://www.mobylives.com/Orwell_Reed.html Author's column in Moby Lives]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/11/27/dl2703.xml Telegraph article]
* [http://nypress.com/15/40/news&columns/publishing.cfm New York Press column]
* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/27/1038362429902.html The Age article]
* [http://www.reason.com/news/show/31995.html Reason Online]
* [http://www.orwelltoday.com/snowball'srevenge.shtml Orwell Today]
* [http://www.flakmag.com/books/snowball.html Flak Magazine]

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