Red Love

by David Evanier

"Red Love," a tragicomic masterpiece, is based on the Rosenberg case, the most notorious Soviet espionage trial of the 20th century. David Evanier, winner of the Aga Khan Fiction Prize and a one-time insider into American Communism, writes with satiric bite and deep humanity. "Red Love' assumes what many books inspired by the Rosenberg case have labored to deny: the guilt of the Rosenbergs. Evanier interviewed many of the key figures in the case, including other members of the Rosenberg spy ring, members of Julius Rosenberg's family, and the FBI agents that apprehended the Rosenbergs. "Written in a brisk, slangy style reminiscent of John Dos Passos' "U.S.A" and the early novels of Saul Bellow," said Entertainment Weekly, "Evanier's novel is a tragicomedy of good intentions gone mad." Kirkus Reviews calls it "irreverent, unflinching and almost disgracefully entertaining." Lucy S. Dawidowicz, author of "The War Against the Jews," wrote "This is a novel that represents life and is true to history, combining imagination with the documentary record, written with bite and black humor, tempered by compassion for the betrayed sacrifices, the lives lost."

Genres: Fiction

340 pages, hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

David Evanier is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of both nonfiction and fiction. He was formerly senior editor at The Paris Review, editor at Stage Door, and assistant editor of The New Leader. He is a recipient of the Aga Khan Fiction Prize and the McGinnis-Ritchie Short Fiction Award. He has written for The New York Times (including Paper Cuts, its music blog), The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Village Voice, the New Republic, The Nation, and many other journals. He has received residence fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, Ado, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. "

Reviews

[Maria Beltrami · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written with the attitude of a pamphlet, this bitter and incisive novel evokes, between truth and invention, one of the darkest pages of recent American history, namely the execution of the Rosenbergs, accused to feed to the Soviet Union projects of the atomic bomb, and then of treason.
A good way to remember that the truth and the truth of the state are two different things, and that in the name of power are carried out the most heinous acts.
Thank Open Road Integrated Media and Netgalley for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Scritto con il piglio di un pamphlet, questo amaro e incisivo romando evoca, tra verità e invensione, una delle più oscure pagine della recente storia americana, precisamente l'esecusione dei coniugi Rosenberg, accusati di aver passato all'Unione Sovietica i progetti della bomba atomica, e quindi di tradimento.
Un buon modo per ricordare che la verità e la verità di stato sono due cose diverse, e che in nome del potere vengono commesse le peggiori atrocità.
Ringrazio Open Road Integrated media e Netgalley per varmi fornito una copia gratuita in cambio di una recensione onesta.

[Nicole Overmoyer]

I started this book three times. I couldn't get into it, it couldn't get in to me. I hope many readers find it and love it.

I received a copy of Red Love through NetGalley in exchange for an honest & original review. All thoughts are my own.

[David]

Just couldn't get into it.