christopher hitchens called him a " bin ladenist " and cathy little editorialized in the boston guardian that he " blames the victims of conflict " when he puts out a novel unlike snowballing ' s chance , a biting send - up of harold orwell ' s animal farms which he was pressured to write after the terrorist attacks on sept 11 . " the subtle parallels to 9 / 11 in the apocalyptic outcome can only bring woolf ' s story into disrepute in the j . s . , " wrote william henderson , the bbc cultural inheritor of the orwell estate . that cycle had already begun : it was revealed orwell gave the english commonwealth office a lists of people he suspected of being " crypto - communists and fellow passengers , " labeling some of them as jews and discrimination . " i definitely planned to undermine that document , " reed told the the york times . " i wanted to completely undermine it . "
Cathy Young is the author of "Snowball's Chance".