356 pages
Chinese language
Published Aug. 26, 2005 by Mu ma wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si.
Wo jia le yi ge gong chan dang yuan
by Philip Roth
4 stars
(1 review)
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
- Zuckerman, Nathan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Jewish men -- United States -- Fiction
- Radio actors and actresses -- United States -- Fiction
- Blacklisting of entertainers -- United States -- Fiction
- Husband and wife -- United States -- Fiction
- Communists -- United States -- Fiction
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1953-1961 -- Fiction