Book Details
Title: Red Plenty
Author: Francis Spufford
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Year: 2010
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 434
Dimensions: L22.5cm xW14cm x D4cm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 978-0-571-22523-1
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Dust jacket is of very good condition, intact. Some minor shelf wear at edges, ends and corners with some rubbing and wrinkling. Mild scuffing. Hardcover boards are black, also of good condition, minimal wear only - most notably some crushing/bumping to spine ends and at least one bump injury to an edge on the cover itself.
Inside:
Binding is firm and intact. Pages are of good condition - mild yellowing, no inscriptions or noted notations.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Once upon a time in the Soviet Union...
Strange as it may seem, the grey, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairytale. 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 of leadership of Nikita 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 that a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come trye, to give the tyranny its happy ending. It's history, it's fiction. IT's a comedy of ideas, and a novel about the cost of ideas."
Book Details
Title: Red Plenty
Author: Francis Spufford
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Year: 2010
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 434
Dimensions: L22.5cm xW14cm x D4cm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 978-0-571-22523-1
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Dust jacket is of very good condition, intact. Some minor shelf wear at edges, ends and corners with some rubbing and wrinkling. Mild scuffing. Hardcover boards are black, also of good condition, minimal wear only - most notably some crushing/bumping to spine ends and at least one bump injury to an edge on the cover itself.
Inside:
Binding is firm and intact. Pages are of good condition - mild yellowing, no inscriptions or noted notations.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Once upon a time in the Soviet Union...
Strange as it may seem, the grey, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairytale. 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 of leadership of Nikita 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 that a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come trye, to give the tyranny its happy ending. It's history, it's fiction. IT's a comedy of ideas, and a novel about the cost of ideas."
