I Married a Communist Roth Philip

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, and incidents
are the product of the author’s imagination, except in the case
of historical figures and events, which are used fictitiously.

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I Married a Communist is being published by Houghton Mifflin
Company exclusively in the United States, Canada, and the Republic
of the Philippines, and nonexclusively in the rest of the world,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Roth, Philip.
I Married a Communist / Philip Roth,
p. cm.
ISBN 0-395-93346-3
I. Title.
PS3568.O855118 1998
813’.54—dc21 98-16797 CIP

Printed in the United States of America

Book design by Robert Overholtzer

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The author wishes to thank the Newark Public Library and its director,
Alex Boyd, for use of its archival resources; to recognize particularly the
generosity of the library’s city historian, Charles Cummings; to thank New
Jersey historian John Cunningham for his guidance; and to acknowledge,
as a primary source, Newark’s Little Italy: The Vanished First Ward, by
Michael Immerso (Rutgers University Press, 1997). The name Katrina Van
Tassel is taken from “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving.

Lines from On a Note of Triumph by Norman Corwin are reprinted by
permission of the author. “With thee, in the Desert” (Poem 209) by Emily
Dickinson is reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees
of Amherst College. From The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H.
Johnson, ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press, copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President
and Fellows of Harvard College.

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