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KROH: The Greening of a Small Planet / CROC: Love & Power Politics in Swamptown, YO (Two Novelas in Verse)
 
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KROH: The Greening of a Small Planet / CROC: Love & Power Politics in Swamptown, YO (Two Novelas in Verse) [Paperback]

Nina Galen (Author)
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December 19, 1999
KROH: The Greening of a Small Planet

In this satire on the global economy, a diverse group of nineteen Earthlings (including an Economist, a Navajo, two Politicians, a Rabbi, a Psychiatrist, a Duck, and two Crocodiles) travels to the planet Kroh to see if it is ripe for trade with Earth.

Some in the Delegation bring along schemes that will help them profit personally, without regard for the planet's inhabitants and ecology. Others are on quests of self-discovery. The Krohtians, teddy-bearish creatures with the minds of men, are happy to see the visitors come, and glad to see them go.

CROC: Love and Power Politics in Swamptown, YO

In this political satire, two deeply-in-love, star-crossed crocodiles run for the same U.S. Senate seat on opposite tickets. Crocadolly, a Demodile, runs on an ecology platform. Young Rockadial, innocent stooge of greedy old Crockafeller, runs against big government and Federal taxation, as a Repelican.

Not for the faint of heart, this extremely funny yarn can turn deadly and tragic as suddenly as a crocodile striking its prey.

All author's royalties will go to protect and increase wildlife habitats.


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About the Author

Nina Galen has published novels and articles in the U.S., England and France. The novellas CROC and KROH are her first written in epic or heroic doggerel'.

Galen's novels include The Rennläufer: E.P. Dutton; Victor Gollancz (England); Éditions Planète (France), The Grapevine: Victor Gollancz; Sphere (England), Monopoly on Terror (pen name Bruce Buck): Zebra Books, and Eden Motel and To Love Flaminio: East Palace. She has been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and in the scholarly journal, Nineteenth Century Fiction. Her aviation articles have appeared in Flying, Flying's Guide to Instrument Flying, and Air Progress, as well as aviation magazines in England and France.

The author's Commentaries and Features have been produced on Public Radio.

A Special Collection of Galen's publications, manuscripts and personal papers can be found at the CSWR, General Library, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. There is also a Special Collection of her publications at UCLA.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: 1st Book Library (December 19, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1585005959
  • ISBN-13: 978-1585005956
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,232,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars The biting satire of Croc/Kroh, March 31, 2000
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This review is from: KROH: The Greening of a Small Planet / CROC: Love & Power Politics in Swamptown, YO (Two Novelas in Verse) (Paperback)
Here we have something unusual -- two works in prose no less -- and under one cover. The diverse set of characters in each work display what is both good and bad within ourselves. In "Croc" we find a couple of crocodiles battling for their political lives -- with a love interest spicing things up even more. The other half of the book deals with a group of what might be called "self-centered, self-serving, sanctimonious hypocrites" who for mostly nefarious reasons, embark upon a space voyage to the alien world of Kroh. And in the end...... Well, that would spoil it! The satire is biting and multi-layered. And a few spots might even require a hanky. The author has packed a lot into her brief lines and a second and third reading brings even more to the stories. Highly recommended!
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5.0 out of 5 stars like to laugh?, March 29, 2003
This review is from: KROH: The Greening of a Small Planet / CROC: Love & Power Politics in Swamptown, YO (Two Novelas in Verse) (Paperback)
Nina Galen is the mother goose for our generation!

Galen has a way of turning a cruel reality into humor and forces you think twice.

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