I Married a Communist
- Published: 1 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781446400609
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
A passionate and coruscating American tragedy
Financial Times
Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or word in its cracking velocity
Mail on Sunday
Quintessential Philip Roth
Sunday Telegraph
A magnificent novel of ideas, a disquisition on the fallout of the death of ideology
Observer
Roth explores our expedients and tragedies with a masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight and wit...a gripping novel
New York Times Book Review
Roth remains as edgy, as furious, as funny, and as dangerous as he was forty years ago
New York Review of Books
I Married a Communist proves that, following the success of Sabbath's Theater and American Pastoral, he remains on extraordinary form... Wonderful storytelling and characterisation
Guardian, Books of the Year
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
One of the great political novels of our age; a card-carrying Shakespearean tragedy with New Jersey dirt beneath its fingernails
Xan Brooks, Guardian
Roth’s conflicted, many-layered characters give this work memorable force
Guardian
'A passionate and coruscating American tragedy'
Financial Times
A gripping novel
NewYork Times Book Review
'Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or a word in its crackling velocity'
Mail on Sunday