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I married a communist

by Unknown Author

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336 pages2005Trafalgar SquareISBN 9780099287834
FictionCommunistsUnited States in fictionHusband and wifeRadio actors and actresses in fictionJewish men in fictionNathan Zuckerman (Fictitious character)Husband and wife in fictionBlacklisting of entertainers in fictionBlacklisting of entertainersJewish menRadio actors and actressesSocial conditionsCommunists in fictionUnited StatesAnti-communist movementsActivitiesBrothersBrothers in fictionAnti-communist movements in fiction
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Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. 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. 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.

Publication Details

Publisher
Trafalgar Square
Published
2005
Pages
336
ISBN
9780099287834
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection *Goodbye, Columbus,* which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller *Portnoy's Complaint.* Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history *The Plot Against America.*

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