by Philip Roth · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099555339
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«Nemesis» is the historical fiction novel by Philip Roth, published by Vintage in 2011 in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Summer 1944: a polio epidemic ravages Newark and sows panic. Bucky Cantor, a young playground director, lives through the tragedy while torn between caring for the children and not being able to go to war. Between the streets of Newark and a camp in the Poconos, Philip Roth portrays the fear, guilt, and pain of a community.
The cover of this edition includes the badge 'Winner The Man Booker International Prize 2011', an award given to the author.
For readers of Philip Roth and historical fiction, particularly interested in the United States during World War II.
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.
