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Nemesis
By Roth, Philip
Nemesis
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- 9780307475008
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Authors:
Roth, Philip
Copyright:
2010
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9780307475008
ISBN10:
030747500X
Page Count:
304
Dimensions:
5.1x0.7x7.9
Publisher:
Vintage
Strand Notes
Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the force 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 weight lifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from military service alongside his contemporaries. As the devastating disease begins to ravage Bucky’s playground, Philip Roth leads readers 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, the novel tenderly and startlingly depicts the condition of childhood, Cantor’s passage into personal disaster, and the painful effect that the wartime polio epidemic has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children. 280p.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Set in a close-knit Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak in 1944, a "book [that] has the elegance of a fable and the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama" (The New Yorker)--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral.
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.
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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