- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Hilltop Publishing Ltd (1 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0953685020
- ISBN-13: 978-0953685028
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 857,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With this intelligent, biting parody of The Wind In The Willows, the author explores the state of our lives and the English environment through the eyes of Mole, who has inadvertently stumbled into the future, into a world like ours. The Weasels have won, not by battle, but by seducing the animals into unbridled pursuit of wealth. The result is not only degradation of the countryside by intensive farming, industrial development and urban sprawl, but loss of the rural dignity and serenity so beautifully portrayed in the original. There are wonderful moments of bleak humour in this book, interwoven with savage insights into the narrow and morally bereft lives of those who control society through conspiracy between big business and political ambition. Toad's descendant sits right at the centre of power, but happily still retains the family's frightening yet entertaining habits. Gareth Lovett Jones has captured the essence of Grahame's writing style and acute observation, turning the original story upside down in a way that is uncomfortably close to home. As I pass through the streets of our cities, the business parks and commuter villages that now invade so much of our countryside, I am constantly reminded of scenes and characters in this book. Read it and look around. --Brian Johnston, English Nature
Lovett Jones's timely rewrite of a classic novel provides a shocking reminder of how much and how fast our environment is being despoiled and degraded - often with the assistance of those who should be acting for the public interest. Read it - then join an environmental pressure group. --Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends Of The Earth
The idea behind this book is brilliantly conceived. What would our innocent friends of the Wind in The Willows have made of the modern day desecration of the countryside and ruthless pursuit of commerce over beauty? The book is funny, sarcastic and biting. --Ann Widdecombe, MP
Lovett Jones's timely rewrite of a classic novel provides a shocking reminder of how much and how fast our environment is being despoiled and degraded - often with the assistance of those who should be acting for the public interest. Read it - then join an environmental pressure group. --Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends Of The Earth
The idea behind this book is brilliantly conceived. What would our innocent friends of the Wind in The Willows have made of the modern day desecration of the countryside and ruthless pursuit of commerce over beauty? The book is funny, sarcastic and biting. --Ann Widdecombe, MP
Sir Roy Strong, art historian and writer
"I screamed with laughter."
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Wind in the Pylons: Adventures of the Mole in Weaselworld: 1 (Paperback)
Its taken me a while to pick it up, but having read it I was desperate for the next installment! Await vol.2 with impatience.
Personally, I feel Gareth has hit the nail on the head and brought out many of the issues/arguments that are relevant in society and getting worse. I for one identify with much of weasel world and much that is out of balance.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Deep-rooted concern.,
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This review is from: The Wind in the Pylons: Adventures of the Mole in Weaselworld: 1 (Paperback)
A very good, very angry book. My slight criticism is that the author, who rightly rages against many of the uglier aspects of the modern world, is so obviously detached from it. This means that its depiction does not always ring true. For anybody with a love of the English countryside, and a concern for it, this is very important and skillfully written book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Satire with a contemporary edge,
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This review is from: The Wind in the Pylons: Adventures of the Mole in Weaselworld: 1 (Paperback)
Gareth Jones' books (mostly non-fiction, as author and photographer) reveal him as someone who deeply loves the countryside, and despairs of the damage done by modern ways of life. Perhaps something of a Luddite his hearfelt involvement with the British lanscape is never in doubt. In this book he revisits the world of "The Wind in the Willows", ingeniously using familiar and well loved characters to tell a morality tale of modern Britain. Mole is placed in a contemporary adventure, with a series of escapades which allow Jones to satirise much that concerns him about (Blairite) Britain. At times very funny, this is also a searching book which asks dificult questions, including the central question of why we tolerate the systematic destruction of rural England. This could well be a cult novel in the making. Read it now and be ahead of the fashion!
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