9780099288671

I Married a Communist

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780099288671

Paperback|9780099288671


Overview

Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold), an idealistic Communist and uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, emerges from serving in World War II passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable. On his way to his political catastrophe, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress the exquisitely refined Eva Frame. Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll to tears and treachery. And, with Eve's dramatic revelation to a gossip columnist of her husband's 'espionage' for the Soviet Union, the relationship becomes a national scandal. Set in the heart of the McCarthy era, the story of Iron Rinn's disgrace is 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.

ISBN-13

9780099288671

ISBN-10

0099288672

Weight

0.40 Pounds

Dimensions

4.33 x 0.83 x 7.05 In

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

336 pages

Publisher

Vintage

Published On

1999-07-01



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