Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and beloved silent-film star, the exquisite Eve Frame (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll into a dispiriting soap opera of tears and treachery. And with Eve's dramatic ... Read More
Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and beloved silent-film star, the exquisite Eve Frame (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll into a dispiriting soap opera of tears and treachery. And with Eve's dramatic revelation to the gossip columnist Bryden Grant of her husband's life of espionage for the Soviet Union, the relationship enlarges from private drama into national scandal. Set in the heart of the McCarthy era, the story of Iron Rinn's denunciation and disgrace brings to harrowing life the human drama that was central to the nation's political tribulations in the dark years of betrayal, the blacklist, and naming names. I Married a Communist is an American tragedy as only Philip Roth could write it. Read Less
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New. No Jacket. Signed by Author(s) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Signed limited edition. Hardcover. Bound in full red cloth with gilt spine lettering, housed in a black slipcase. Very Fine in a fine slipcase (still in original shrink-wrap). Signed by the author on the limitation page. This edition was limited to 250 numbered copies. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 323 pages. The novel follows the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a radio star and fervent communist, whose life unravels during the McCarthy era due to betrayal and political persecution, narrated by Roths recurring alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The book is the second volume in Roths American Trilogy, preceded by American Pastoral and followed by The Human Stain. This was one of only a few signed, slip-cased limited editions of Roths work issued by Houghton Mifflin; the others being Everyman and Exit Ghost. Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral and the National Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus. I MARRIED A COMMUNIST won the 1998 Ambassador Book Award and was a finalist for both the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the 2000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The author's eighteenth novel.
