Lire des livres electroniques Nemesis
By Philip Roth
Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a
wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. ?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. As the devastating disease begins to ravage
Bucky?s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a
pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewilderment, suffering, and pain.
Moving between the streets of Newark and a pristine summer camp high in the
Poconos, Nemesis tenderly and startlingly depicts Cantor?s passage into
personal disaster, the condition of childhood, and the painful effect that the
wartime polio epidemic has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark
community and its children.??
