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Review: A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-First Century Socialism by Marta Harnecker
Engels as dickhead? Great novel, bad history
Mrs Engels
By Gavin McCrea
Melbourne: Scribe, 2015,
352 pages, A$29.99
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Review by Barry Healy
August 13, 2015 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- For those hankering to know what Friedrich Engels’ erect penis looked like, page 37 of this novel is for you. “In its vigours, it points up and a bit to the side”, says Lizzie Burns, the first-person narrator of the entire story.She goes on: “Its cover goes all the way over the bell and bunches at the end like a pastry twist. Before he does anything he spits on his hand and peels this back.” Engels is quite enamoured of his member, it seems.
Gavin McCrea’s Lizzie Burns is a brilliant narrative voice and his writing sparkles. Lizzie’s rich brogue and her incisive humour are wonderful.
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