The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate (Nation Books)

About this book

Norma Barzmans extraordinary memoir The Red and the Blacklist fizzes with the wit and energy of the classic Hollywood comedies of the forties. But it is also laced with the fear and claustrophobia found in the forties film noirs as Norma and her husband Ben Barzman are driven from Hollywoodduring the postwar McCarthyite witch huntinto an emotionally difficult 30-year exile in France. While their hair-raising and amusing adventures continue Ben battles depression as he attempts to rehabilitate his career while frustrating Normas own aspirations as a writer. She seeks solace in a string of affairs one of them ending in a pregnancy that she aborts. However Normas passion for life Ben and her seven children and her radical instincts shine throughout this dazzling memoir. 20 black-and-white photographs are included.