'The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil'

Story writer George Sanders just published his first novel. This is a short time. It is called "short and terrible rule of fair". Alan Cheuse comments

"Phil's short and bad rule" is only about 130 pages including several illustrations. However, the first thing I said is that they are a sarcastic 130 page tasty page in politics and livelihoods, since Philip Ross' s book "Tricky Dick Nixon", we have something called "our gang" I have not seen it.

This story takes place in a field composed of a body such as a special field of imagination of Sanders, a combination of human motive and calder. "To become a small country is one thing." But since Horner's country is small enough to contain only one internal volcanic rock, the other six internal volcanic rocks must wait for the order to live with them . Because this country was very timidly around the outskirts of Horner, the outer energy molecules were concerned about elbow space within their territory. The rise of Hornerite, he sought the invasion of inner Hornerites

Phil gathered a small group of savage mobs to help him overthrow his incumbent president and to help dismantle the violating inner volcano and other people who blocked him. Phil sang a song to his servant who completely imitated American ambition and self-esteem. "Who are we? We are expressive people, but people with few words, we feel deeply, but we do not express emotions to cowardice We like fun, but because we have fun in a foolish way, it seems absurd as long as we do not intend.

You will want to hear the rest of this speech and the rest of the absurd tale as soon as possible.

Siegel: This book is George Sanders's "Short and awful rule of the Fair". Our commentator Alan Cheuse teaches writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

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Phil's short and bad rule (he calls "terrible") is a dreamlike fairy tale that twists and rots. It tells the plight of the inhabitants of Nerhorna called "a small country that can accommodate only one citizen at a time". The other six citizens must wait for turn around in the short-term residential area of ​​surrounding infinity. As already in the center of their merciful surrounding forces, the inner Hornerites give anger of increasingly frustrated people when they sink deep into their small parcels.

Phil 's concise and horrible rules include two countries, Interior Horner and External Horner. Inner Horner is very small, and at the same time it is only one citizen (7 people in total) who can live in this country. The rest is waiting at a short-term residential area. One day, Nel Horna shrunk, the external Horner militia immediately announced that they were invaded. The rest of the novel - this book, along with Benjamin Gibson's example, has been cut out 130 pages as an evil and cool orange paperback - how to deal with these "illegal invaders" of internal Hornerites The focus is on. Soon, an external energy company called Phil assumed the responsibility to charge illegal occupants, and of course they could not pay. As the internal volcanic rock becomes increasingly desperate, the external energy stone becomes more ruthless when it is extracted. (The internal Hornerites eventually disintegrated.)

Phil's short and bad rule is a 130-page novel by American writer George Sanders. It was explained as a metaphor and is compared to an animal farm in George Orwell. The author says it is a "human tendency to divide the world into two-way conflicts." Sanders has written this book at Syracuse University in New York for many years, where he was a creative writing professor. The story focuses on border conflict between Inner Mongolia and the country of Outerholder The former is "small enough that only one internal volcanic rock can fit inside and the other six internal volcanic rocks are in their own country It is necessary to wait to live in. It is very timid to stand the country around the real name outside. "