{"product_id":"9781612191263","title":"Snowball's Chance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, \u003ci\u003eSnowball’s Chance \u003c\/i\u003eis an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm, \u003c\/i\u003ein  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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant political satire and literary parody, John Reed’s \u003ci\u003eSnowball’s Chance \u003c\/i\u003ecaused  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165378035952,"sku":"9781612191263","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612191263_p0.jpg?v=1763841147","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612191263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}