Nemesis - Philip Roth - Books - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - 9780307475008 - October 4, 2011
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Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives.

Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As the devastating disease begins to ravage Bucky?s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewilderment, suffering, and pain. Moving between the streets of Newark and a pristine summer camp high in the Poconos, Nemesis tenderly and startlingly depicts Cantor?s passage into personal disaster, the condition of childhood, and the painful effect that the wartime polio epidemic has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children. 
 


304 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 4, 2011
ISBN13 9780307475008
Publishers Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages 304
Dimensions 131 × 203 × 23 mm   ·   232 g
Language English  

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