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Am 25. November 1944 schlägt eine deutsche V2 in ein Londoner Kaufhaus ein. 168 Menschen verlieren binnen Sekundenbruchteilen ihr Leben, die meisten sind Frauen und Kinder. Francis Spufford macht aus dem Andenken an die Getöteten einen Anfang. Er erzählt von fünf ungelebten Leben: Da sind die Zwillingsschwestern Jo und Val. Val, die Lebenslustige, verliebt sich in den Falschen, landet im Gefängnis und tut ein Leben lang Buße. Jo, die Hochbegabte, geht nach Amerika, aber für eine Frau ist in der Musikindustrie nur die Rolle als Freundin des Stars vorgesehen.

An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability. Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between storytelling and truth-telling.

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Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the "new atheist" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the grown-up dignity of Christian experience.

Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the 20th-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. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, and as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant.