Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/07/1999
ISBN: 9780099287834
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
The second novel of Roth’s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American Pastoral
I Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigger in 1930s New Jersey, becoming a big-time radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star - and as a zealous, bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's beloved leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling expose that identifies Ira as 'an American taking his orders from Moscow'.
In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and savage revenge, anti-Communist fever pollutes national politics and infects the relationships of ordinary Americans; friends become deadly enemies, parents and children tragically estranged, lovers blacklisted and felled from vertiginous heights.
‘Quintessential Philip Roth’ Sunday Telegraph
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/07/1999
ISBN: 9780099287834
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
A passionate and coruscating American tragedy
Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or word in its cracking velocity
One of the great political novels of our age; a card-carrying Shakespearean tragedy with New Jersey dirt beneath its fingernails
Quintessential Philip Roth
A magnificent novel of ideas, a disquisition on the fallout of the death of ideology