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Libro 2 de 3: American Trilogy

Roth, Philip

 
9780063499379: I Married a Communist
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ISBN 10: 0063499371 ISBN 13: 9780063499379
Editorial: Mariner Books Classics, 2026

Sinopsis

A National Jewish Book Award Finalist

“A bitter, often funny, always engrossing story that wonderfully evokes a time and place in our common past….The idealisms and hypocrisies of the postwar period [are] brilliantly resurrected.” —Robert Stone, The New York Review of Books

The second book in the brilliant American Trilogy, I Married a Communist chronicles the rise and fall of a man whose life is destroyed in the McCarthy witch hunt of the 1950s, a personal tragedy that echoes the broader national betrayal.

Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and beloved silent-film star, the exquisite Eve Frame (born Chava Fromkin).

Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll into a dispiriting soap opera of tears and treachery. And with Eve's dramatic revelation to the gossip columnist Bryden Grant of her husband's life of "espionage" for the Soviet Union, the relationship enlarges from private drama into national scandal.

Set in the heart of the McCarthy era, the story of Iron Rinn's denunciation and disgrace brings to harrowing life the human drama that was central to the nation's political tribulations in the dark years of betrayal, the blacklist, and naming names.

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Acerca del autor

PHILIP ROTH (1933-2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 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 twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004" and the W.H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, making Roth the first writer in the forty-six-year history of the prize to win it twice.

In 2005 Roth became the third living American writer to have his works published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2012 he won Spain's highest honor, the Prince of Asturias Award, and in 2013 he received France's highest honor, Commander of the Legion of Honor.

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Editorial
Mariner Books Classics
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0063499371
ISBN 13 
9780063499379
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
400
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780375707216: I Married a Communist: American Trilogy (2) (Vintage International)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0375707212 ISBN 13:  9780375707216
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999
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