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I Married a Communist
"Gripping.... A masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight and wit." --The New York Times Book Review
I Married a Communist is the story 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.
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 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."
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Nov 2nd, 1999
- Pages: 338
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.32in - 0.73in - 0.63lb
- EAN: 9780375707216
- Categories: • Literary• Political• Historical - General
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mostly enjoyed the domestic portraits of ex-CPUSA members which read like what i assumed a philip roth novel called i married a communist would read like (although the audiobook of that read by ron silver pre-9/11 derangement is also entertaining)
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Praise for this book
"A remarkable work--remarkable in its stringent observation of American life...remarkable in its wisdom. Mr. Roth has the frantic politics of this frantic time--the McCarthy era--in exact pitch." --Arthur Schlesinger, The New York Observer
"As social history it breathes life. In Ira Ringold, Roth has created one of his singularly ripe, vigorous characters. Ira's dizzying rise and fall out of and back into the working class trace the trajectory of twenty years of American history." --Chicago Tribune
"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
"Gripping.... A masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight and wit." --The New York Times Book Review
"I Married a Communist is filled with passages as fine and sharp as anything Roth has ever written (which is to say, as fine and sharp as anything in contemporary American literature)." --The Village Voice Literary Supplement
"I Married a Communist leaves you both dumbfounded and in awe." --Chicago Sun-Times
"[S]eals [Roth's] reputation as a writer at the very top of his game." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
What people are saying
ex @malteserubble
mostly enjoyed the domestic portraits of ex-CPUSA members which read like what i assumed a philip roth novel called i married a communist would read like (although the audiobook of that read by ron silver pre-9/11 derangement is also entertaining)