Nemesis

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

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.

©2010 Philip Roth (P)2010 Blackstone Publishing

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Well, I'm a big fan of Philip Roth and I've enjoyed most of his books. This book takes you back to a time that a lot of people have forgotten about us. Things are important during our brief time on earth to us. A moving and disturbing story one that I think, everybody should read