Shameless comic extravagance'

Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick... An awesome performance

Roth is one of a handful of living American novelists who can be called great

Roth is better than he's ever been before... The prose is electric

A magnificent novel of ideas, a disquisition on the fallout of the death of ideology

Roth explores our expedients and tragedies with a masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight and wit...a gripping novel

Roth remains as edgy, as furious, as funny, and as dangerous as he was forty years ago

I Married a Communist proves that, following the success of Sabbath's Theater and American Pastoral, he remains on extraordinary form... Wonderful storytelling and characterisation

The McCarthy era has faded, eerily, into nostalgia, just as Capitol Hill produces its own 90s version of witch-hunt and communal obsession with enemies of the state, and perversions of justice perpetrated in democracy's name. Roth avoids nostalgia by making his narrator an active, if unwitting participant in the original drama, caught up in political currents and counter-currents he did not comprehend at the time

Roth’s conflicted, many-layered characters give this work memorable force