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Philip Roth: Nemesis

Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death.
ISBN: 9780099542261
Author: Philip Roth
Page: 280
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2011
Format: Book
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Language: English

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Price: 4 290 Ft

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Vigorous, decent, 23-year-old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving the war. As polio begins ro ravage Bucky's playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.

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