I Married a Communist

The story of the rise and fall of Ira Gold, a hard-boiled worker in his youth, is a novel that can also be read as a fictional biography by Philip Roth: I Married a Communist.

While he was a radio star, Ira Gold married Hollywood's famous silent film actress Eve Frame. Ira is unaware that this marriage will lead to her own end, as a matter of fact, in the book she wrote after a short-lived happy marriage, Eve says that Ira is a communist taking orders from Moscow and throws her husband into a boiling witch's cauldron.

An icy political climate at the beginning of the Cold War and a brutal witch hunt in America in the 50s...

Philip Roth's America Trilogy, consisting of independent novels, continues with I Married a Communist, which follows Pastoral America. Roth discusses the traumatic effects of the anti-communist movement, which started during the McCarthy period and turned into a witch hunt, on society and the individual in the tense political climate after World War II.

It is an extraordinary work, remarkable for its sharp observations of American life and the wisdom it contains. Mr. Roth has fully absorbed the political madness of the McCarthy era.

- The New York Observer -

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 312

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish