Nan Lowry Collins
Ad
related to: I Married a CommunistShop for Bestsellers, New-releases & More. Best Prices on Millions of Titles
- Contact Us
Have Any Questions?
We're Here to Help!
- Books in Indian Languages
Read books in your mother tongue.
Buy online at Amazon.in.
- Contact Us
Search results
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. 9,322 ratings758 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.
- (9.3K)
- Paperback
Sep 5, 2023 · 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
Oct 17, 2019 · An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he emerges from serving in WW2 passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable, his life in ruins.
A fictional account of Ira Ringold, a radio star who marries a Hollywood actress and becomes a victim of the anti-Communist witchhunt in the 1950s. The novel explores the themes of politics, betrayal, and personal tragedy in a turbulent period of American history.
- Paperback
Jan 19, 2022 · Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Anti-communist movements -- United States -- Fiction, Brothers -- United States -- Fiction, Anti-communist movements, Brothers, United States Publisher London : Jonathan Cape Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English
People also ask
What is I Married a communist about?
Is I Married a communist based on a true story?
How many words are in I Married a communist?
What happened to I Married a communist?
Jan 20, 2024 · I Married a Communist is the story of Iron Rinns denunciation and disgrace. It is also a story of cruelty, humiliation, betrayal and revenge - an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive one - fierce and funny, eloquently rendered and deadly accurate.
