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Red Plenty
Francis Spufford
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Description for Red Plenty
Paperback. The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. This book is about that moment in history, and how it came and went away. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBLW3; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 114 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352.
'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
'Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph
'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick Hornby
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working.
Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571225248
SKU
V9780571225248
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About Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1997), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays about the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize and a Somerset Maugham ... Read more
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