American trilogy
I married a communist
About this book
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.
American trilogy · 3 books
In publication order- American Pastoral 1997
- I Married a Communist 1998 This book
- The Human Stain 2000
Subjects
- activities
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- anti-communist movements
- anti-communist movements in fiction
- blacklisting of entertainers
- blacklisting of entertainers in fiction
- brothers
- brothers in fiction
- communism
- communisme
- communists
- communists in fiction
- fiction
- fiction, political
- husband and wife
- husband and wife in fiction
- ira ringold (fictitious character)
- jewish men
- jewish men in fiction
- jews
- littérature américaine
- maccartyzm
- nathan zuckerman (fictitious character)
- new jersey, fiction
- new york times reviewed
- nineteen fifties
- nineteen forties
- powieści
- radio actors and actresses
- radio actors and actresses in fiction
- roman américain
- romans
- social conditions
- traductions françaises
- united states
- united states. congress. house. committee on un-american activities
- united states. congress. house of representatives. committee on un-american activities
- united states in fiction
- united states. in fiction