Found this reference to the Trilogy
Ed Vulliamy in New YorkSunday August 26, 2001The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,542616,00.html
Published last autumn, The Amber Spyglass is the final book in the trilogy. His Dark Materials , which takes its name from Milton's Paradise Lost and also deals with Creation and the fall of man.
It has been described as the most dense and provocative of the three novels: in its 550 pages Pullman contrasts innocence and experience, good and evil. He redefines Mary as a fallen woman and Eve as the redeemer of men, and presents God as an ordinary angel before killing him. The plot is full of fairytale inventions, with witches, armoured bears, tiny spies who travel on dragonflies, and a 'subtle knife' which can be used to cut windows into parallel worlds.
His sales in America are more than just a literary phenomenon. They are a counter-cultural force. 'My experience of America is that it is a pretty conformist country, and that pressure on young people to go to some kind of church, often a fundamentalist one, can be formi dable,' said Pullman. [ ...]
Pullman says: 'Blake once wrote of Milton that he was a "true poet, and of the Devil's party, without knowing it". I am of the Devil's party, and I know it.'
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