I Married a Communist: Philip Roth

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral.

Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star – and as a bullying supporter of `progressive` political causes – Ira marries Hollywood`s leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve`s scandalous bestselling expose that identifies Ira as `an American taking his orders from Moscow`. In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge friends become deadly enemies, parents and children estranged, lovers blacklisted and the great felled from vertiginous heights.