In a bittersweet new novel by the author of Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint, a ditchdigger rises to prominence in the 1940s as a radio star and is betrayed by his new wife, silent film star
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 tu
The second novel of Roth’s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American Pastoral I Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an
In History's Grip concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America's greatest writers, and in particular on American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain. Each of these no
The editors' introductory essay begins with a quote by Philip Roth from I Married a Communist in which he places betrayal squarely at the heart of personal, family, and world history. Twelve contribut
