by Philip Roth · Jonathan Cape · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224089531
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«Nemesis» is the historical novel by Philip Roth, published by Jonathan Cape in hardback (280 pages, in English).
Summer 1944: a polio epidemic ravages Newark (New Jersey) and endangers the community's children. Bucky Cantor, a young playground director who couldn't enlist due to his poor eyesight, struggles to protect his charges while fear, panic and anger take hold of the city.
Published in 2010, it is one of the four short novels Philip Roth published in his later years, alongside Everyman, Indignation and The Humbling.
For readers of historical and literary fiction, and for those who follow Philip Roth's novels set in the Jewish community of Newark.
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against America.
