Cry Wolf: A Political Fable

by Paul (Author), Lake (Author)

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2008
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Cry Wolf is an Animal Farm for the 21st century: a brilliant allegory of the political challenges we face in post-9/11 America. The farm animals' struggle to maintain their way of life against an influx of change is a powerful commentary on the importance of balancing freedom with justice, and on how easily even the best of intentions can destroy a community too caught up with what is fair to do what is right. Lake's novel raises questions of in the heart of every devoted citizen: Does political correctness ever trump law? Should safety ever be compromised for the sake of inclusion? Are big government and judicial systems tools to create order, or do they provide chaos?

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Cry Wolf is an Animal Farm for the 21st century: a brilliant allegory of the political challenges we face in post-9/11 America. The farm animals' struggle to maintain their way of life against an influx of change is a powerful commentary on the importance of balancing freedom with justice, and on how easily even the best of intentions can destroy a community too caught up with what is fair to do what is right. Lake's novel raises questions of in the heart of every devoted citizen: Does political correctness ever trump law? Should safety ever be compromised for the sake of inclusion? Are big government and judicial systems tools to create order, or do they provide chaos?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 215
Edition: FICT
Publisher: BEN BELLA
Published: 02 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 1933771429
ISBN 13: 9781933771427

Media Reviews

John Lennon sang 'Imagine there's no countries, and no religions, too'. In his superb limpid allegory, Paul Lake imagines these very things with terrifying precision. --Les Murray, poet and winner, TS Eliot Award
The inner logic of Cry Wolf is just right. Cleverly devised and well developed. -- Chronicles magazine
A charming and chilling fable that underscores the fragility of a world achieved with great difficulty and so easily undone by good intentions gone awry. --The Reverend John Newhaus, editor in chief, First Things
What seems, at first, a gentle fable about farm animals who enjoy a kind of ordered liberty, turns quickly into a grim allegory about man's dark impulse toward the collective. --Laurie Morrow, political columnist, The Montpelier Bridge
In the great tradition of George Orwell's Animal Farm, I can only hope that it will be as widely read and will be as powerful an influence as was Orwell's masterpiece in awakening civilization to its present deadly peril. -- American Spectator
Lake writes vividly and characterizes shrewdly, producing an anti-immigration fable more polished than Orwell's anti-Communist satire. --Booklist