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.In his heyday as a star—and as a zealous, bullying supporter of progressive political causes—Ira marries Hollywoods beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon in her Manhattan townhouse is shortlived, however, and it is the publication of Eves 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 Iras turbulent personal life, Philip Roth—who Commonweal calls the master chronicler of the American twentieth century—has written a brilliant fictional portrayal 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.
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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.In his heyday as a star—and as a zealous, bullying supporter of progressive political causes—Ira marries Hollywoods beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon in her Manhattan townhouse is shortlived, however, and it is the publication of Eves 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 Iras turbulent personal life, Philip Roth—who Commonweal calls the master chronicler of the American twentieth century—has written a brilliant fictional portrayal 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.
شناسنامهٔ کتاب
- تعداد صفحات
- ۳۲۳
- زبان
- English
- ناشر
- Vintage
- شابک
- 9780000000000
مکان روایت
- United States of America
ایالات متحده آمریکا
جوایز
- Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (1999)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (1998)
- International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2000
