I married a communist

Description:

Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he emerges from serving in WW2 passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable, his life in ruins. I Married a Communist is the story of Iron Rinns denunciation and disgrace. It is also a story of cruelty, humiliation, betrayal and revenge - an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive one - fierce and funny, eloquently rendered and deadly accurate.

subjects: Fiction,  Communists,  United States in fiction,  Husband and wife,  Radio actors and actresses in fiction,  Jewish men in fiction,  Nathan Zuckerman (Fictitious character),  Husband and wife in fiction,  Blacklisting of entertainers in fiction,  Blacklisting of entertainers,  Jewish men,  Radio actors and actresses,  Social conditions,  Communists in fiction,  United States,  United States. Congress. House of Representatives. Committee on Un-American Activities,  Anti-communist movements,  Activities,  Brothers,  Brothers in fiction,  Anti-communist movements in fiction,  United States. in fiction,  Nineteen fifties,  Fiction, political,  Nineteen forties,  Communism,  Communisme,  Romans,  Jews,  Littérature américaine,  Traductions françaises,  Roman américain,  American literature,  Ira Ringold (Fictitious character),  New York Times reviewed,  Maccartyzm,  Powieści,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  New jersey, fiction,  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities

Places: United States

Times: 1953-1961