How long does it take to read I Married a Communist?
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth takes about 6 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of American trilogy
Previous: American Pastoral Next: The Human Stain
About 6 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 344 pages, about 94,600 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he emerges from serving in WW2 passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable, his life in ruins. I Married a Communist is the story of Iron Rinns denunciation and disgrace. It is also a story of cruelty, humiliation, betrayal and revenge - an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive one - fierce and funny, eloquently rendered and deadly accurate.
Subjects: Fiction, Communists, United States in fiction, Husband and wife, Radio actors and actresses in fiction, Jewish men in fiction
