I Married a Communist - American Trilogy (2) (Paperback, 1st Vintage International ed)

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 Hollywood's beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon in her Manhattan townhouse is shortlived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's 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 Ira's turbulent personal life, Philip Roth—who Commonweal calls the "master chronicler of the American twentieth century—has written a brilliant fictional protrayal 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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage International
Release date:	November 1999
First published:	November 1999
Authors:	Philip Roth
Dimensions:	204 x 131 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	323
Edition:	1st Vintage International ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-70721-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-375-70721-2
Barcode:	9780375707216

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!