I Married a Communist [Lingua inglese]: Philip Roth - Brossura

Roth, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0099287838 ISBN 13: 9780099287834

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2001

Riassunto

The second novel of Roth’s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American Pastoral

I 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 supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's beloved leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling expose that identifies Ira as 'an American taking his orders from Moscow'.

In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and savage revenge, anti-Communist fever pollutes national politics and infects the relationships of ordinary Americans; friends become deadly enemies, parents and children tragically estranged, lovers blacklisted and felled from vertiginous heights.

‘Quintessential Philip Roth’ Sunday Telegraph

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Recensione:

"A passionate and coruscating American tragedy" (Financial Times)

"Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or word in its cracking velocity" (Mail on Sunday)

"One of the great political novels of our age; a card-carrying Shakespearean tragedy with New Jersey dirt beneath its fingernails" (Xan Brooks Guardian)

"Quintessential Philip Roth" (Sunday Telegraph)

"A magnificent novel of ideas, a disquisition on the fallout of the death of ideology" (Observer)

Descrizione del libro:

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre – 31 books – to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099287838
• ISBN 13: 9780099287834
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352