A powerful tale about America’s place in the world during these volatile times and a warning about the inherent dangers of unregulated immigration and identity politics, this playful narrative tells the story of the animals of Green Pastures Farm. When the farm’s owner dies, the domesticated animals learn to tend the farm themselves and live in harmony, based on their basic tenets of “No Trespassing” and equality for all farm animals. The farm’s balance and peace is irrevocably shaken when a wounded doe is allowed into the farm enclosure and is followed by an influx of other wild animals who threaten not only the farm’s hard-earned winter food supply, but the very ideals on which Green Pastures Farm was founded.
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"Lake writes vividly and characterizes shrewdly, producing an anti-immigration fable more polished than Orwell's anti-Communist satire." —Booklist
"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
"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
"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
"The inner logic of Cry Wolf is just right. Cleverly devised and well developed." —Chronicles magazine
"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
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Paul Lake is an English and creative writing professor at Arkansas Tech University and the poetry editor of First Things. He is the author of Among the Immortals, Another Kind of Travel, and Walking Backward. He lives in Russellville, Arkansas.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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A Lyrical Condemnation of Politically Correct Thought.,
By Icedeer (Colorado United States) - See all my reviews
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Cry Wolf by Paul Lake is an astonishing book. Not only is it an unflinching look at the destructive nature of political correctness but it also offers the reader a lyrical story telling experience.
In the tradition of Animal Farm, Lake's story unfolds on a peaceful farm that has passed into the care of domestic animals after the death of the human owner. The animals cooperate to solve the problems of sowing and reaping, defense, education, and the creation of a rule of law. The first law is that of No Trespassing. Fences are maintained and dogs patrol the borders to keep out wild animals that would kill the farm residents or destroy the vital crops. When the animals make a compassionate decision to provide temporary refuge to a wounded doe, they take the first unthinking step toward the destruction of everything they hold dear. Cry Wolf examines a number of issues that are eroding our ability to think clearly and reasonably. The stifling imposition of politically correct speech, the reframing of issues, the post modern attachment to ethical relativism, and the descent into tribalism through ethnicity are only a few of the issues woven through Lake's haunting story. You will not only see the teachers, the politicians, the academics, the judges, and the activists in Lake's book - you will see yourself. That sight may be clearer and harsher than you have been used to seeing in a very long time. Cry Wolf will have you mulling over the creeping suppression of free speech that is slowly crushing dissent in the United States. It will surprise you with its insights into all too human character. It will entrance you with its prose and characters. It will greatly disturb you. It will do what good books always do - it will make you think.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A must read for all Americans.,
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A must read for any of us caught in the trenches of the war against political correctness. For that matter a wake up call to any American. I think it fair to raise my objections first, but then move on to the praise this book deserves. I am the grandson of immigrants and have taught across thirty years, many of my students first generation and second generation Americans who were eager to embrace what America is. Those who come to our shores and truly embrace the ideals of America, as my grandfather did, and taught me to believe in, then I argue that the lamp is still lit as a sign of welcome. My grandfather was born a German long before WWI, but he became an American, loved America, and died an American, and before he died he taught his children and grandchildren to embrace and love this country. Since our founding America has thrived on the fresh infusions of blood of new Americans, who though proud of the heritage of their past, see in America that shining city on the hill. To them we should all bid welcome. We are not Americans by blood, by race or religion, we are Americans bonded by an ideal of freedom and the founding documents of our Independence. That said, I will go on to near unstinting praise of Lake's book, though it was hard for the first fifty pages or so to keep track of various characters, but once the "downfall" began, the story became absolutely riveting. I will give no spoilers here, (hate those kinds of reviews!). Sufficient to say that when several of the animals are sent to "Sensitivity Training" to cure them of their "xenophobia" I was truly hooked. . .and as the standard line goes, I did not know whether to laugh or scream. Being in academia I've endured the same, I will never forget a friend, trapped in the same sensitivity class I was stuck in, whispering to me that I was committing "face crime," that my disdain was too obvious to the "professor." It was straight out of "1984", my mere look of disbelief at what I was hearing and being forced to endure, could be grounds for the ending of my graduate student career. This book will make nearly every reader uncomfortable. It should! There are so many obvious points where the author's characters should have "drawn a line," or "rebuilt the fence" but in failing, and stepping back out of fear of not being politically correct, their fate is sealed. I admire the author's guts for writing this book, for it most assuredly means he will never pass a tenure review in 98% of our colleges today! If you are a parent of a student in college, make them read this book, and ask the questions of what is it they are truly learning in their "orientation" classes, and what "conformity" is expected of them at every turn while you shell out tens of thousands a year. For I believe the battlefield to save what is left of our cultural standards from the fate Lake implies is indeed our academic world. Nearly every scene in Lake's book, (other than outright slaughter, at least physical slaughter) I have witnessed in one form or another. The author has written an Orwellian novel for our time, here, today, and not just a cautionary fable set in a future. It is about here and now and thus should be read by any who wish to still see America as the shining city on the hill rather than a morally and financially bankrupt. . .(which the squandering of the harvests symbolizes) nation that it is becoming, and in many ways already is. Sincerely, Wm. Forstchen, Ph.D. Professor of History and author of "One Second After"
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Animal Farm for our Day and Time,
By Jason Carter "President of Aegis Strategies, ... (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Cry Wolf: A Political Fable (Paperback)
As other reviewers have noted, this is the Animal Farm of our day. The book is certainly equal to the task. Cry Wolf is both as observant and as entertaining as Orwell's classic. And for 21st century Americans, it is more penetrating, as the evils it reveals are closer to our gates than the Communism that Orwell combatted.
This is one of those books that I lend out freely and intend to buy several copies to give away.
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