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...Ringold, is a 1950s radio star who has never given up the Communist passions he picked up as an uneducated GI and whose marriage to a Hollywood actress, a closet Jew in thrall to her 24 year old harpist daughter, is a poor buffer against Ira's ongoing, subconscioussearch "for a way not to kill anybody." Ira wantseverything he does to be as big as his own temper,and I Married a Communist is a tragicomedyabout how that attitude didn't really work out.The emotional blindness of this character,however, prevents Roth from reaching his mostpenetrating...
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