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Nemesis
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- Dennis Boutsikaris
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 5 September 2023
- Run Time
- 5 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker Abner Benaim
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.
Critics Review
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“Nemesis could be the darkest novel Roth has written and ranks with the most provocative.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“Roth, one of our greatest American writers, is unrivaled in his mastery at evoking mid-20th-century New Jersey.”
Library Journal (starred review)
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Details
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Narrator
- Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duration
- 5 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 September 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212382885
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker Abner BenaimSet 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.
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