I Married A Communist

Author: Philip Roth

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  • : July 2005
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Description

Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popular performer, he marries America's reigning radio actress and silent movie star, Eve Frame. However, both his marriage and his life collapse.

Awards

Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000 and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2000.

Reviews

Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or a word in its crackling velocity - Mail on Sunday; A passionate and coruscating American tragedy - Financial Times; A gripping novel - NewYork Times Book Review

Author description

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005, Philip Roth will become the third living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of the eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.