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Red Plenty - by Francis Spufford (Paperback)

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  • "Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous.
  • About the Author: Francis Spufford is the author of The Child That Books Built and two other books.
  • 448 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical

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About the Book



Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the 20th-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the 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.



Book Synopsis



"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." --The Times (London)

Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the 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 came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.

Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.



Review Quotes




"A hammer-and-sickle version of Altman's Nashville, with central committees replacing country music . . . [Spufford] has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature." --Nick Hornby, The Believer

"A thrilling book that all enthusiasts of the Big State should read." --Michael Burleigh, The Sunday Telegraph




About the Author



Francis Spufford is the author of The Child That Books Built and two other books. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College and lives near Cambridge.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.22 Inches (H) x 5.55 Inches (W) x 1.23 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.24 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 448
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Historical
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Francis Spufford
Language: English
Street Date: February 14, 2012
TCIN: 92178691
UPC: 9781555976040
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-8392
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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