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I Married a Communist

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 Unemploy...

Publisher:
Vintage
Year of publication:
1999
ISBN:
978-0-09-928783-4
Pages:
323
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Synopsis

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.

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