Red Plenty

by Francis Spufford

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00B9ZDDCC
• ISBN13: 9781555976040
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.2"