I Married a Communist

Philip Roth

ISBN 10: 0099287838 / ISBN 13: 9780099287834

Editore: ARROW (RANDOM), 1999

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Riassunto:

Il secondo romanzo dell'eloquente trilogia americana di Roth, ambientata nella tempestosa era McCarthy, un brillante successore di American Pastoral Ho sposato un comunista racconta l'ascesa e la caduta di Ira Ringold, un teppista americano che inizia la sua vita come scavatore di fossi nel New Jersey degli anni '30, diventando un grande successo radiofonico negli anni '40. Nel suo periodo di massimo splendore come star, e come zelante e prepotente sostenitore di cause politiche "progressiste", Ira sposa l'amata protagonista di Hollywood, Eve Frame. La loro luna di miele glamour è di breve durata, tuttavia, ed è la pubblicazione dello scandaloso best-seller di Eve che identifica Ira come "un americano che prende ordini da Mosca". In questa storia di crudeltà, tradimento e vendetta selvaggia, la febbre anticomunista inquina la politica nazionale e infetta le relazioni degli americani comuni; gli amici diventano nemici mortali, genitori e figli tragicamente separati, amanti inseriti nella lista nera e abbattuti da altezze vertiginose. 'Il Philip Roth per eccellenza' Sunday Telegraph.

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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Titolo: I Married a Communist
Casa editrice: ARROW (RANDOM)
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket