James Birch: Bacon In Moscow [2023] paperback ZSCFI their son Armistice is a

their son Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant son's fear of falling through the cracks

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and then pressing the sound buttons to bring the story to noisy life: hear the lion roar and the puppy bark

Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat

James Birch: Bacon In Moscow [2023] paperback ZSCFI their son Armistice is a'A rollicking cultural adventure fascinating and true' Grayson Perry This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the ground breaking retrospective of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished Central House of Artists, Moscow in 1988. Side lined by the British establishment, Birch found himself at the heart of a honey trap and the focus for a picaresque cast of Soviet