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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 Rinn's 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.
| ISBN | 0099287838 | | Pages | 336 | | ISBN13 | 9780099287834
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 230 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage | | Previous ISBN | 9780099288671 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 200 | | Publication date | 01 Jul 1999 | | Width (mm) | 132 | | Non-book description | B | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or a word in its crackling velocity - Mail on Sunday; A passionate and coruscating American tragedy - Financial Times; A gripping novel - NewYork Times Book Review  Be the first to write a customer review
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