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A terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, and even death. This is the startling theme of Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and its effect on a closely knit community and its children. At the center of Nemesis is twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor, an athlete who is devoted to his charges and disappointed that his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground -- and on the everyday realities he faces -- Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewilderment, suffering, and pain.
Moving between the smoldering streets of Newark and Indian Hill, a pristine children's summer camp high in the Poconos -- whose "mountain air was purified of all contaminants" -- Roth depicts a decent, energetic man with the best intentions struggling in his own private war against the epidemic. Roth is tenderly exact at every point about Cantor's passage into personal disaster and no less exact about the condition of childhood
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The stunning final novel from the great Philip Roth, now reissued in electric new backlist styleIt'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 this heartbreaking tale. The eloquence of Roth's storytelling makes 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 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099542261
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