by Philip Roth · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780307475008
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In the summer of 1944, as a polio epidemic terrorizes Newark, New Jersey, Bucky Cantor, a young and energetic playground director, faces a moral crisis. Unable to serve in the war due to his poor eyesight, Bucky feels guilty and frustrated. As the disease spreads among the children in his community, Bucky struggles with his own fears and the growing sense of helplessness. The novel explores themes of responsibility, fate, and the devastating consequences of disease in a close-knit community.
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.
