Description
Fiction. Reed's first novel, A Still Small Voice, received high praise from an array of writers and critics. Paul Auster called it "a fine first novel by a young writer of great promise." SNOWBALL'S CHANCE is far more than a scathing sequel to George Orwell's Animal Farm, although it assuredly does count as that rarest of things: a successful sequel to a classic work. In a brilliantly conceived and executed riposte to the marketplace's unthinking cheerleaders, Reed's Snowball, the Pig ousted from the Animal Farm for rationality, returns to bring marketeering to the farm. "While reading SNOWBALL'S CHANCE, one plays this terrifying guessing game of animal รก clef: Which animal am I? Which animal is my neighbour? Which animal is my enemy? Written in lucid, wise, funny, fable-prose, this book brings to mind Spiegelman's Maus--the use of a playful metaphor to reveal horrible, frightening truths we might otherwise refuse to see. A scary, engrossing novel, a sustained
Author Bio
John Reed has been published in Paper Magazine, The New York Press, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, Playboy, Vice Magazine, Out Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, The PEN Poetry Series, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, Slate and Harpers; he's been included in four anthologies, including Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin). He's author of the novels, A Still Small Voice (Delacorte Press), The Whole (MTV Books / Simon & Schuster), and of the dramatic work, All The World's A Grave (Plume) and the illustrated, nonfiction work, Tales of Woe (MTV Press). FREE BOAT (C&R Press, 2017) is his first book of poetry.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA