Snowball's Chance

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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. [1] Led by Christopher Hitchens, [2] Marxists and Orwell admirers also objected to the work. [3] 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. [4] The author, John Reed, has published two other novels, A Still Small Voice (Delacorte, 2000) and The Whole (MTV, Simon & Schuster, 2005).

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  1. ^ News - Telegraph
  2. ^ New York Press - JOHN STRAUSBAUGH
  3. ^ Kill the beavers! - Telegraph
  4. ^ A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell - New York Times