I Married a Communist

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Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal ¦( v . V • .. - ' - - . _ secret from which he is perpetuaily in füght. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turnéd popuiar 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 unemployabte, his life in ruins. I Marríed a Communist is the story of Iron Rinn's denunciation and disgracé, It is alsó a story of cruelty, humiiiation, betrayal and revenge - an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive one - fierce and funny, eloquently rendered and deadly accurate. it is hard to imagine a better növel coming out of America this year' William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday 'Roth remains as edgyr as furious? as funny, and as dangerous as he was forty years ago' New York Review of Books \ - . - " 'Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or a word in its... Tovább

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Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal ¦( v . V • .. - ' - - . _ secret from which he is perpetuaily in füght. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turnéd popuiar 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 unemployabte, his life in ruins. I Marríed a Communist is the story of Iron Rinn's denunciation and disgracé, It is alsó a story of cruelty, humiiiation, betrayal and revenge - an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive one - fierce and funny, eloquently rendered and deadly accurate. it is hard to imagine a better növel coming out of America this year' William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday 'Roth remains as edgyr as furious? as funny, and as dangerous as he was forty years ago' New York Review of Books \ - . - " 'Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or a word in its crackling velocity' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday 'Quintessential Philip Roth' Dávid Robson, Sunday Telegraph 'Roth explores our expedients and tragedies with a masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight and wit...a gripping növel' New York Times Book Review '/ Marríed a Communist..proves that, following the success of Sabbath's Theater and American Pastorai, he remains on extraordinary form... wonderful storytelling and characterisation' Erica Wagner, Guardian, Books of the Year f Vissza