Red Plenty

Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous. --The...
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Author: Francis Spufford
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Red Plenty by Spufford, Francis

Red Plenty

$37.07

Red Plenty

$37.07
Author: Francis Spufford
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Francis Spufford
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 02/14/2012
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.55w x 1.23d
ISBN: 9781555976040


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2011
Booklist 12/01/2011 pg. 34
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2011
Library Journal 01/01/2012 pg. 99
Shelf Awareness 02/24/2012
New Yorker (The) 02/27/2012 pg. 85
Foreword 02/29/2012
New York Times Book Review 03/04/2012 pg. 13
New York Times Book Review 03/11/2012 pg. 26
Kirkus Best Nonfiction 12/01/2012 pg. 38

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.


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