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I Married a Communist
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9780063499379
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.26 Depth: 7.93
Language: English
Gripping. . . . A masterly, often unnerving blend of tenderness, harshness, insight, and wit. --The New York Times Book Review
A bitter, often funny, always engrossing story. . . . The idealisms and hypocrisies of the postwar period [are] brilliantly resurrected. --The New York Review of Books
Philip Roth is an amazing writer. . . . I Married a Communist may very well become his classic work; perhaps a classic for all time, --The Plain Dealer
I Married a Communist tells of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, who begins life as a teenage ditchdigger in 1930s Newark, becomes a bigtime 1940s radio star, and is destroyed in the McCarthy witch hunt of the 1950s. In his heyday--when he was a zealous, bullying supporter of progressive political causes--Ira marries Hollywood silent-film star Eve Frame. Their honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies him as an American taking his orders from Moscow.
This story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge is a brilliant portrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch, when anti-Communist fever not only infected national politics but traumatized the intimate, innermost lives of friends and families, husbands and wives, parents and children.
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