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Red Plenty Francis Spufford
Publisher: Graywolf Press

This week's book giveaway is a triple-scoop treat from Graywolf Press: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, The Life of an Unknown Man by Andreï Makine and The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka. Red Plenty by Francis Spufford. I just got done reading Francis Spufford's "Red Plenty". LECA - last eukaryotic common ancestor · Pixelated · Red Plenty - Francis Spufford · Satisifaction · Nigel the Neuron. A readthrough of Red Plenty by Francis Spufford What a wonderful world we live in where a book like Francis Spufford's Red Plenty can be published! I have just finished reading the most amazing book on the USSR I think I think I have ever read. About halfway through reading Red Plenty, I realized that I did not trust its author. The season three finale didn't have nearly the drama or body count as last week's Red Wedding (thank the gods), but it did have plenty of fantastic character moments and lots of setup for things to come. Sharing my final thoughts after Nebraska's 45-31 loss to Georgia in the Capital One Bowl. Defensively, a lot of work ahead for 2013. This is a staggeringly original and intricate piece of work, the best and most ambitious book I've read for a very long time. Books · science · economics · genetics · politics. Francis Spufford's half-novel/half-history Red Plenty is by far the best popular account of the Soviet utopian experiment I have read—and I've read a few. Blot your tears with Plenty's gussied-up red velvet Twinkies. An unusual blend of fiction and history about the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s offers fascinating insights. Red Plenty is a book for social scientists in more ways than one. But Red Plenty is a work of non-fiction, in which Francis Spufford reimagines an era of Soviet history often overlooked – the period between Stalinism and totalitarianist menace. So I have actually been very busy lately and it hasn't always been entirely pleasant. So I allotted myself some "reading-for-pleasure" time to compensate for it, and I present here a quick review of the book I chose!