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21%OFFPhilip Roth - Nemesis - 9780099542261 - V9780099542261
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Nemesis

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Description for Nemesis Paperback. It's Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218.

It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic.

Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground - child by helpless child - Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.

'The genius of Philip Roth...back at his imperious best in ... Read more Nemesis one of his most haunting works' Daily Mail

'Cantor is one of Roth's best creations and the atmosphere of terror is masterfully fashioned' Sunday Telegraph

'Very fine, very unsettling' Douglas Kennedy, The Times

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099542261
SKU
V9780099542261
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About Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the ... Read more

Reviews for Nemesis
Heart-wrenchingly powerful
Sunday Times
A mesmerically imagined work of realism... A shocking gem... A masterclass in literature and life, that reaches into the pits of the dead
Guardian
What makes Roth such an important novelist is the effortless way he brings together the trivial and the profoundly serious
Independent
A masterful performance
Spectator ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Nemesis


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