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Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, he emerges from serving WW2 passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployed - his life in ruins.

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First edition of Roth's controversial novel on mccarthyism, anti-semitism and, arguably, his ex-wife. Dust-jacket has some bumping to top edge and light shelfwear. Contents clean and prim. Good condition.
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Ira Ringold (now Iron Rinn) is a self-educated radio actor married to spoilt, rags-to-riches beauty and silent-film star, Eve Frame. He is a Communist, she is passionately and irrationally anti-Semitic (in spite of her own Jewish origins). Roth's alter-ego narrator Nathan Zuckerman--an idealistic admirer of Ira as a boy-- uncovers the story of Eve's betrayal of Ira to a gossip- columnist, and Nathan's own unknowing involvement with the blacklistings and ruined careers of the immediate post-war period. Roth's characteristically acerbic writing and keen eye for emotional detail reaches to the heart of this moment of high American tragedy, a point at which the American dream was damaged beyond recovery.

The McCarthy era has faded, eerily, into nostalgia, just as Capitol Hill produces its own 90s version of witch- hunt and communal obsession with enemies of the state, and perversions of justice perpetrated in democracy's name. Roth avoids nostalgia by making his narrator an active, if unwitting participant in the original drama, caught up in political currents and counter-currents he did not comprehend at the time. --Lisa Jardine

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0224048902
  • ISBN 13 9780224048903
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
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