Description:
The residents of Upton have marched in a permanent parade promoting pride in the flag and its conformity, unbridled consumption, nationalist nihilism
Review Quotes:
Ben Miller's Parade is a breathless, wildly imaginative, dystopian romp. Think Dr. Seuss on steroids, Kerouac on a carousel, Orwell through the Looking Glass. It's a movie in words, a kaleidoscope mural, motion in poetry. You'll never read anything like it again.
-Dean King, New York Times bestselling author of Skeletons on the Zahara
Witty farce meets phantasmagorical nightmare, The Parade is a biting commentary on patriotism taken to its furthest extremes. Bursting with alliterative language and evocatively weird imagery...Miller's fiction debut is eccentric and ambitious, a refreshing departure from the navel-gazing instincts that dominate modern fiction.
-Ariadne Blayde, author of Ash Tuesday
The Parade is a dystopian tour de force, an over-the-top epic of brainwashed mandatory patriotism run-I should say force-marched-amok.
-Stephen Kessler, author of The Tolstoy of the Zulus: On Culture, Arts & Letters