The Cast Iron ShoreLeading a vacuous life in Liverpool with her Jewish family, Sybil Ross is 14 years old when she overhears a forbidding family secret. Reacting, she sets off for America, where she joins the Communist Party and ends up being pursued by the forces of McCarthyism until she reaches California. |
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