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:''This article is about the 1998 novel. For the 1949 film, see I Married a Communist (film).'' ''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 McCarthyite politicians, a gossip columnist, and his daughter-addled and manipulative wife all combine to destroy Ira and many of those around him. ==Claire Bloom controversy== Some reviewers, especially those in the British press such as Rachelle Thackray of ''The Independent'' and Linda Grant of ''The Guardian'', consider the character of Eve Frame — the antisemitic wife who destroys Ira — to be a barely disguised riposte at Roth's ex-wife, Claire Bloom, for her unflattering memoirs, which portrayed Roth as unable to bottle his vanity and incapable of living in the same household with Bloom's daughter, Anna Steiger. However, Frame is portrayed fairly sympathetically in the novel. She destroys Ira's career (unintentionally) after being manipulated by his enemy, Brydon Grant. She later attempts to make amends for having done this. Linda Grant writes of the similarities between Claire Bloom and Eve Frame:
She argues ''I Married a Communist'' "is not a novel", but rather, "an angry, bitter, resentful mess by a man who might have taken another course."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Married a Communist」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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