PRAISE FOR JOHN REED
AND SNOWBALL’S CHANCE

“While reading Snowball’s Chance, one plays this terrifying guessing game of animal á clef: which animal am I? Which animal is my neighbor? 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 truths we might otherwise refuse to see.”

—JONATHAN AMES

“A writer of great promise.”

—PAUL AUSTER

“A pig returns to the farm, thumbing his snout at Orwell … the world had a new evil to deal with, and it was not communism … The estate of George Orwell is not happy about it.”

—DINITIA SMITH, NEW YORK TIMES

“[Reed] not only shanghais Orwell’s story, but amps up and mocks the writer’s famously flat, didactic style—that fairytailish simplicity that has ensured Animal Farm a place in high school English classes for the last 50 years.”

—JOHN STRAUSBAUGH,
NEW YORK PRESS

“Reed is an extraordinary talent.”

—FRAN GORDON

“Snowball’s Chance parodies Orwell’s Animal Farm, dragging it kicking and screaming into the 21^st century.”

—ED NAWOTKA,
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY

“Reed has managed to take a dated masterpiece … and revive it for the odd, casino-like social and political world we’re mired in today; in the process he’s created his own masterpiece.”

—CREATIVE LOAFING (CHARLOTTE)

“John Reed excels in the realm of the strange.”

—SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

“Reed’s tale, crafted amid ground zero’s dust, is chilling in its clarity and inspired in its skewering of Orwell’s stilted style. Whether you liked or loathed the original, there’s no denying Reed has captured the state of the farm today.”

—FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS

“Eerie in its timeliness.”

—RAIN TAXI

“A caustically brilliant satire … as brainy as it is base, destructive as it is innovative and sweeping as it is sophisticated.”

—LOS ANGELES JOURNAL