{"product_id":"red-plenty-paperback","title":"Red Plenty - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancis Spufford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous. \u003ci\u003e--The Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStrange 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. \u003ci\u003eRed Plenty \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Plenty \u003c\/i\u003eis history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as \u003ci\u003eSputnik\u003c\/i\u003e, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancis Spufford\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Child That Books Built \u003c\/i\u003eand 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.23 x 8.22 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247261106425,"sku":"9781555976040","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SHpadEo1WjJESWlTMTYvaHQ2S3FSdz09.webp?v=1768621300","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/red-plenty-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}