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I Married a Communist is a Philip Roth novel concerning the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, known as "Iron Rinn". The story is narrated by Nathan Zuckerman , and is one of a trio of Zuckerman novels Roth wrote in the 1990s depicting the postwar history of Newark, New Jersey and its residents.
- Philip Roth
- 1998
Oct 22, 1998 · 3.86. 9,241 ratings750 reviews. 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.
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Nov 2, 1999 · by Philip Roth (Author) 4.3 969 ratings. Book 2 of 3: American Trilogy. See all formats and editions. The 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.
- Philip Roth
- $16.99
- Vintage
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A roman à clef about the author's ex-wife Claire Bloom and their troubled marriage. The novel follows Ira, a radio actor and communist, and his wife Eve, who writes a book exposing his past and ruins his career.
- Philip Roth
- 1998
About I Married a Communist. The 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 ...
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Jan 1, 1998 · Roth's old alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, narrates the story of Ira Ringold, aka Iron Rinn, a supremely idealistic political radical and celebrated radio star of the 1950s who is blacklisted and brought to ruin when his wife, Eva Frame (a self-hating Jewish actress born Chava Fromkin), writes an expose called I Married A Communist.
Oct 22, 1998 · by Philip Roth (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.3 979 ratings. Book 2 of 3: American Trilogy. See all formats and editions. Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular ...
