Summary
The stunning final novel from the great Philip Roth, now reissued in electric new backlist style
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 after helpless child - Rot…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099542261 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099542269 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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What They're Saying
Critics Review
Heart-wrenchingly powerful
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
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 – Tibor Fischer * Sunday Telegraph *
Very fine, very unsettling – Douglas Kennedy * The Times *
A perfectly proportioned Greek tragedy played out against the background of the polio epidemic that swept Newark, New Jersey, during the summer of 1944 – Adrian Turpin * Financial Times *
Outstanding * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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