"Spud Failure Definite"
| Title | "Spud Failure Definite" |
| Year for Search | 1955 |
| Authors | Peart, Noel |
| Secondary Title | A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 |
| Pagination | 107-17 |
| Date Published | 1955 |
| Publisher | William Heinemann |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | Male author |
| Annotation | The failure of the potato crop leads to a new Irish famine. Famines are very common and are relieved by delivering tons of canned mouse meat. Most of the story is about the bureaucratic bungling in response. |
| Holding Institutions | L, NLS |
| Full Text | 1955 Peart, Noel. “Spud Failure Definite.” A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 (London: William Heinemann, 1955), 107-17. L, NLS The failure of the potato crop leads to a new Irish famine. Famines are very common and are relieved by delivering tons of canned mouse meat. Most of the story is about the bureaucratic bungling in response. |
