Nemesis

AvPhilip Roth

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Engelska, 2010

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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

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-12-23
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781446401101
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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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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"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 "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