I Married a Communist
of Philip Roth
Series: The American Trilogy #2
Description
I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s.In his heyday as a starâand as a zealous, bullying supporter of "progressive" political causesâIra marries Hollywood's beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon in her Manhattan townhouse is shortlived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling exposĂ© that identifies him as "an American taking his orders from Moscow."In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge spilling over into the public arena from their origins in Ira's turbulent personal life, Philip Rothâwho Commonweal calls the "master chronicler of the American twentieth centuryâhas written a brilliant fictional portrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch when the anti-Communist fever not only infected national politics but traumatized the intimate, innermost lives of friends and families, husbands and wives, parents and children.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 323 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date November 2nd 1999
- First Publication 10/22/98
- Language English
- ISBN 9780375707216
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['United States of America']
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