
- Publisher:
- VINTAGE
- Year of publication:
- 1999
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-928783-4
- Pages:
- 323
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST
PHILIP ROTH
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 Rinn'S 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.