Houghton Mifflin. The Woman on Pier 13 is a 1949 American film noir drama directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, and John Agar. But for someone who is looking for a good story, and is not interested in how Roth is going to make his ex-wife look bad, it doesn't work as well. I Married a Communist is a bit of a cheat title. I married a communist by Philip Roth, 1999, Vintage Books edition, in English - 1st Vintage International ed. I Married a Communist is an American tragedy as only Philip Roth could write it. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. Still, I Married a Communist addresses the culture of the old Left more directly than any of Roth’s earlier works. 27 quotes from I Married a Communist (Complete Nathan Zuckerman #7/The American Trilogy, #2): ‘As an artist the nuance is your task. I Married a Communist is an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive-fierce and funny, eloquently rendered, and deadly accurate. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2020. All in all, 'I Married a Communist' is definitely worth reading. A high 3, could have been a 4 if it had been culled just a touch - there's a tendency toward repetitiveness here that can get frustrating. Easy? I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. The second novel of Roth's eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American PastoralI 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 … Zuckerman, retired to a cabin in the Berkshires, meets his old teacher, now 90 years old. OTHER BOOKS. The "War on Terror" resembles a re-tooled "War on Communism" complete Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist. Roth's perennial narrator-cum-alter ego, Nathaniel Zuckerman, interviews Ira's brother to see what really happened in those Cold War days. Nathan, who grew up in the 1940s as a fledgling liberal intellectual whose heroes were radio playwright Norman Corwin and left-wing novelist Howard Fast, adored the charismatic Ira, even after the latter's wife denounced him as a duplicitous "zealot" in her explosive memoir, I Married a Communist. I Married a Communist is an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive-fierce and funny, eloquently rendered, and deadly accurate. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read I Married a Communist. That said, it has a str. I'll remember it more than most of the 3s - I'll remember the sweetness and love in the depiction of Murray, and I'll remember the ending. That said, it has a strange mixture of narrative hand-holding (atypical in the Zuckerman books) and ranting RE: communism that makes it hard to completely endorse it. Do you need to read this trilogy in order? It should have been I Married an Ex-Communist, because the object of the title, Brad Collins (Robert Ryan), quit the party in disgust more than a decade before the story starts. It’s a hodgepodge of a novel that serves to vent his feelings about the witchhunt days of the 1950s and to fire a shot at his ex-wife, Claire Bloom, whose tell-all book about their marriage preceded this effort. The book is firmly rooted in history, and even though it is not essential to *know* the time period, a bit of background knowled. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. He struggles to fit in his new life among the rich and famous of New York after marrying his super-famous co-protagonist, a persona who, I believe, represents th. 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