u003cbu003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to u003ciu003eAmerican Pastoral.u003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star - and as a bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling expose that identifies Ira as 'an American taking his orders from Moscow'. In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge friends become deadly enemies, parents and children estranged, lovers blacklisted and the great felled from vertiginous heights.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or word in its cracking velocity' u003ciu003eMail on Sundayu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003ciu003eu003cbru003eu003c/iu003e'A passionate and coruscating American tragedy' u003ciu003eFinancial Timesu003c/iu003e
