I MARRIED A COMMUNIST - Philip Roth Read Ron Silver {FerraBit} torrent

I MARRIED A COMMUNIST by Philip Roth (1998)

Read by . . : Ron Silver
Publisher . : Phoenix Audio (2007)
ISBN . . . .: 1597776823 | 9781597776820
Format . . .: MP3. 47 tracks, 452 MB
Bitrate . . : ~90 kbps (iTunes 10, VBR (highest), Stereo, 44.1 kHz)
Source . . .: 10 CDs (16 hrs)
Genre . . . : Fiction
Unabridged .: Unabridged

The (extended) Nathan Zuckerman Series:

0 - My Life as a Man (1974)
1 - The Ghost Writer (1979)
2 - Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
3 - The Anatomy Lesson (1983)
4 - The Prague Orgy (1985) (epilogue)
5 - The Counterlife (1986)
5 - American Pastoral (1997)
>>6 - I Married a Communist (1998)
7 - The Human Stain (2000)
8 - Exit Ghost (2007)

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Sept 2010

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_roth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Married_a_Communist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Zuckerman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Silver

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From Wiki:
I Married a Communist is a Philip Roth novel concerning the rise and
fall of Ira Ringold, known as \"Iron Rinn.\" The story is narrated by
Nathan Zuckerman, and is one of a trio of Zuckerman novels Roth wrote
in the 1990s depicting the postwar history of Newark, New Jersey and
its residents.

Ira and his brother Murray serve as two immense influences on the
school-age Zuckerman, and the story is told as a contemporary
reminiscence between Murray and Nathan on Ira\'s life. Although a
communist, Ira became a star in radio theater. Personal conflicts with
his wife, McCarthyite politicians, a gossip columnist, and his
daughter-addled and manipulative wife all combine to destroy Ira and
many of those around him.

Some reviewers, consider the character of Eve Frame — antisemitic wife
who destroys Ira — to be a barely disguised retort at Roth\'s ex-wife,
Claire Bloom, for her unflattering memoirs which portray a Roth unable
to bottle his vanity and incapable of living in the same household with
Bloom\'s daughter, Anna Steiger.
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Amazon Review:

Ira Ringold is a self-educated radio actor, married to a spoilt,
rags-to-riches beauty, silent-film star Eve Frame (Chave Fromkin).
He is a Communist, and a \"sucker for suffering,\" locked into the cycle
of violence from which he has emerged. She has risen by assiduous
imitation of what is \"classy\"--which seems to include a wide swathe of
anti-Semitism--and ultimately denounces her husband as a Soviet spook.
And who would be the narrator of this McCarthy-era meltdown? None other
than Philip Roth\'s longtime alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, who learns the
full tragedy several decades later, owing to a chance encounter with
Ira\'s brother: \"I\'m the only person living who knows Ira\'s story,\"
90-year-old Murray Ringold tells Nathan, \"you\'re the only person still
living who cares about it.\"

Characteristically, Nathan also discovers that his own story was bound
up with the blacklistings and ruined careers of the immediate postwar
period. It seems that he had been tainted by his association with the
Ringolds--Murray was in fact his high-school teacher--and was denied
the Fulbright scholarship he deserved. \"They had you down for Ira\'s
nephew,\" Murray tells Nathan. \"The FBI didn\'t always get everything
right.\" Roth\'s acerbic style and keen eye for emotional detail goes to
the heart of this moment of high tragedy in which the American dream
was damaged beyond repair.


Philip Roth titles in the FPL:
-Goodbye, Columbus +5 (1959) 5 readers
-Letting Go (1962) Luke Daniels
-When She Was Good (1967) Tanya Eby
-The Breast (1972) David Colacci
-The Great American Novel(1973)James Daniels
-My Life as a Man (1974) Dan John Miller
-The Professor of Desire(1977) David Colacci
-The Ghost Writer (1979) George Guidall
-Zuckerman unbound (1981) George Guidall
-The Anatomy Lesson (1983) George Guidall
-The Counterlife (1986) George Guidall
-The Facts: Autobio (1988) Mel Foster
-Deception (1990) D Colacci & S Ericken
-Patrimony (1991) George Guidall
-American Pastoral (1997) Ron Silver
>>I Married a Communist (1998) Ron Silver
-The Dying Animal (2001) Tom Stechschulte
-The Plot Against America(2004)Ron Silver
-Everyman (2006) George Guidall
-Exit Ghost (2007) George Guidall
-Indignation (2008) Dick Hill
-The Humbling (2009) Dick Hill
-Nemesis (2010) Dennis Boutsikaris