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I Married a Communist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375707216)
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Philip Roth
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xThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral delivers the astonishing story of the rise and fall of an American man whose life is destroyed in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s.
"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.
Author: Philip Roth
ISBN-10: 0375707212
ISBN-13: 9780375707216
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 11/02/1999
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.32w x 0.73d
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee
Award: Ambassador Book Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/21/1999 pg. 78
Entertainment Weekly 12/10/1999 pg. 102
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 104
Newsweek 10/01/2007 pg. 80
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 14
"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.
Author: Philip Roth
ISBN-10: 0375707212
ISBN-13: 9780375707216
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 11/02/1999
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.32w x 0.73d
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee
Award: Ambassador Book Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/21/1999 pg. 78
Entertainment Weekly 12/10/1999 pg. 102
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 104
Newsweek 10/01/2007 pg. 80
New York Times Book Review 03/16/2014 pg. 14
By Philip Roth
xPHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.
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