Description: 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.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Nemesis
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Urban, Literary, Jewish
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 7.8 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Philip Roth
Book Series: Vintage International Ser.
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
