Nemesis

By - Roth, Philip

Floor - Floor 3

ISBN 10 - 1407474057

ISBN 13 - 9781407474052

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - New Jersey--Newark

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 813.54 ROT

Physical Description - [ix], 230 pages ; 20 cm

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In the New Jersey city of Newark, during the summer of 1944, a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening children with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. At the centre of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful, twenty-three-year old playground director, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and a weightlifter, who is devoted to his charges and whose weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his 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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