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Gripping. . . . A masterly, often unnerving blend of tenderness, harshness, insight, and wit.\" —The New York Times Book Review
\"A bitter, often funny, always engrossing story. . . . The idealisms and hypocrisies of the postwar period [are] brilliantly resurrected.\" —The New York Review of Books
\"Philip Roth is an amazing writer. . . . I Married a Communist may very well become his classic work; perhaps a classic for all time,\" —The Plain Dealer
I Married a Communist tells of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, who begins life as a teenage ditchdigger in 1930s Newark, becomes a bigtime 1940s radio star, and is destroyed in the McCarthy witch hunt of the 1950s. In his heyday—when he was a zealous, bullying supporter of “progressive” political causes—Ira marries Hollywood silent-film star Eve Frame. Their honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve’s scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies him as “an American taking his orders from Moscow.”
This story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge is a brilliant portrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch, when 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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Gripping. . . . A masterly, often unnerving blend of tenderness, harshness, insight, and wit.\" —The New York Times Book Review
\"A bitter, often funny, always engrossing story. . . . The idealisms and hypocrisies of the postwar period [are] brilliantly resurrected.\" —The New York Review of Books
\"Philip Roth is an amazing writer. . . . I Married a Communist may very well become his classic work; perhaps a classic for all time,\" —The Plain Dealer
I Married a Communist tells of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, who begins life as a teenage ditchdigger in 1930s Newark, becomes a bigtime 1940s radio star, and is destroyed in the McCarthy witch hunt of the 1950s. In his heyday—when he was a zealous, bullying supporter of “progressive” political causes—Ira marries Hollywood silent-film star Eve Frame. Their honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve’s scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies him as “an American taking his orders from Moscow.”
This story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge is a brilliant portrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch, when 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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Gripping. . . . A masterly, often unnerving blend of tenderness, harshness, insight, and wit.\" —The New York Times Book Review
\"A bitter, often funny, always engrossing story. . . . The idealisms and hypocrisies of the postwar period [are] brilliantly resurrected.\" —The New York Review of Books
\"Philip Roth is an amazing writer. . . . I Married a Communist may very well become his classic work; perhaps a classic for all time,\" —The Plain Dealer
I Married a Communist tells of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, who begins life as a teenage ditchdigger in 1930s Newark, becomes a bigtime 1940s radio star, and is destroyed in the McCarthy witch hunt of the 1950s. In his heyday—when he was a zealous, bullying supporter of “progressive” political causes—Ira marries Hollywood silent-film star Eve Frame. Their honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve’s scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies him as “an American taking his orders from Moscow.”
This story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge is a brilliant portrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch, when anti-Communist fever not only infected national politics but traumatized the intimate, innermost lives of friends and families, husbands and wives, parents and children.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in I Married A Communist?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre
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Is I Married A Communist part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series American Trilogy
Who is/are the Author/s of the book I Married A Communist?
Philip Roth
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HarperCollins
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I Married A Communist is available as ebook(ISBN 9780547345369)
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