Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2011.
Through this story runs the dark question that haunts all four of Roth's late short novels, Everyman, Indignation , The Humbling, and now, Nemesis : What choices fatally shape a life? How powerless is each of us up against the force of circumstances?
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Set in a close-knit Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak in 1944, a "book [that] has the elegance of a fable and the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama" (The New Yorker)-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944.
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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.
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Nemesis was written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Nemesis has 280 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage International series