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I Married a Communist
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20062972
作者：
Roth, Philip
定價：
490
會員價：
$417
ISBN：
0375707212
出版年份：
1999
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
336
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我嫁了一個共產黨員

羅斯代表作「美國戰後三部曲」之第二部

　　艾拉．林格，二戰中全身而退的共產黨員，靠著自學苦讀，和貌似林肯，因緣際會成為著名廣播劇演員，並和身處名流的前默片女明星伊芙．富瑞相戀，結婚。他以為自己矢志不移的共產思想的推動，可以和他與伊芙這段資產階級式婚姻並行不悖，互為完滿，但在戰後麥卡錫主義盛行之風吹襲下，他只能因共產黨員身分淪為各方打壓的對象，連同家族受到整肅，他的妻子最後在無法承受壓力之下，以《我嫁了一個共產黨員》的回憶錄，對艾拉做了最致命的毀滅。勞資緊張、族群暴力、欲望壓抑下的自我膨脹、上流社會的虛矯與殘酷、猶太社群的自我疏離、人與人的相互背叛和報復，以及各式各樣的嗜血症，羅斯在小說中編織出龐大的細節網，描述艾拉．林格所負的莫名譴責與恥辱，深切刻畫殘酷、救贖、背叛，以及復仇的故事，一部唯羅斯足以建構出的美國悲劇。

I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s.

In his heyday as a star—and as a zealous, bullying supporter of "progressive" political causes—Ira marries Hollywood's beloved silent-film star, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon in her Manhattan townhouse is shortlived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies him as "an American taking his orders from Moscow."

In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge spilling over into the public arena from their origins in Ira's turbulent personal life, Philip Roth—who Commonweal calls the "master chronicler of the American twentieth century—has written a brilliant fictional protrayal of that treacherous postwar epoch when the anti-Communist fever not only infected national politics but traumatized the intimate, innermost lives of friends and families, husbands and wives, parents and children.
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