Nemesis
- Author Philip Roth
- Narrator Dennis Boutsikaris
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 5 hours and 15 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Disability: social aspects, Historical fiction, History, History: plagues, diseases etc, Narrative theme: Interior life, Society and Social Sciences.
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What to expect
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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. 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
©2010 Philip Roth (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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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
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