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I Married a Communist

By Philip Roth

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I Married a Communist

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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 star—and as a zealous, bullying supporter of "progressive" political causes—Ira 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 exposé 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 Roth—who Commonweal calls the "master chronicler of the American twentieth century—has written a brilliant fictional protrayal 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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Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
338
Release Date:
1999-11-02
Publication Date:
1999-11-02
Publisher:
Knopf
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375707212
ISBN13:
9780375707216
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
378 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
19 cm

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