I Married A Communist
Author: Philip Roth
The second novel of Roth’s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era – a brilliant successor to American PastoralI Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigger in 1930s New Jersey, becoming a big-time radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star – and as a zealous, bullying s….Read More
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