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The story of Iron Rinn's dramatic rise and fall--told by his brother Murray, himself a victim of the McCarthy trials, to Roth's fictional alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman--is American tragi-comedy as only Philip Roth can write it: fierce and funny, thoughtful and acute.
Oct 22, 1998 · Nathan, who grew up in the 1940s as a fledgling liberal intellectual whose heroes were radio playwright Norman Corwin and left-wing novelist Howard Fast, adored the charismatic Ira, even after the latter's wife denounced him as a duplicitous zealot in her explosive memoir, I Married a Communist.
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Jan 22, 2011 · I MARRIED A COMMUNIST is a wonderful novel, full of heart and soul. Using the broad canvas of a troubled decade on which to paint the portrait of one man's fate, Roth has never been more compelling. His later works show a greater sensitivity to those around him.
I Married a Communist. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral. Ira Ringold is an American...
Nov 2, 1999 · 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,...
Oct 22, 1998 · An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and beloved silent-film...
