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Nemesis

By Philip Roth

Nemesis Contemporary literature

Nemesis

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2011-10-06
Publication Date:
2011-10-31
Publisher:
Random House LLC US
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0307745414
ISBN13:
9780307745415
Weight:
168 g
Height:
104 cm
Width:
168 cm
Thickness:
20 cm

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