- Fiction, Communists, United States in fiction, Husband and wife
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.
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Prestige, classical in form, bleak and overwhelming.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Philip Roth
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Companhia das Letras, Vintage, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780375707216
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“IRA RINGOLD'S older brother, Murray, was my first high school English teacher, and it was through him that I hooked up with Ira.”
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection *Goodbye, Columbus,* which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller *Portnoy's Complaint.* Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictio
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