I Married a Communist: Philip Roth - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1784875554 ISBN 13: 9781784875558

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2025

Riassunto

Lo scrittore vincitore del premio Pulitzer Philip Roth volge lo sguardo all'America degli anni '30 e '40 in questo magnifico successore di American Pastoral. Ira Ringold è un rude americano che si trasforma da scavatore di fossi nel New Jersey degli anni '30 a un pezzo grosso della radio negli anni '40. Nel suo periodo di massimo splendore come star (e come sostenitore prepotente di cause politiche "progressiste"), Ira sposa la protagonista di Hollywood, Eve Frame. La loro luna di miele glamour è di breve durata, tuttavia, ed è la pubblicazione dello scandaloso bestseller di Eve che identifica Ira come "un americano che prende ordini da Mosca". In questa storia di crudeltà, tradimento e vendetta, gli amici diventano nemici mortali, genitori e figli si allontanano, gli amanti finiscono nella lista nera e i grandi cadono da altezze vertiginose. "Intrecciato con energia, spreca a malapena una scena o una parola nella sua velocità scoppiettante" Mail on Sunday "Una tragedia americana appassionante e scintillante" Financial Times.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.

In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus – a collection of stories, and a novella – for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral. Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star - and as a bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bests

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1784875554
• ISBN 13: 9781784875558
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352
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