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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.



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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 *
Nemesis is an artfully constructed suspenseful novel with a cunning twist -- J.M. Coetzee

Nemesis

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    A Paperback / softback by Philip Roth

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 13 October 2011
      ISBN-13 9780099542261
      978-0099542261
      ISBN-10 0099542269
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      Historical Fiction Books by Philip Roth

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      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 *
      Nemesis is an artfully constructed suspenseful novel with a cunning twist -- J.M. Coetzee

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