Nemesis

by Philip Roth

Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Set in a close-knit Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak in 1944, a "book [that] has the elegance of a fable and the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama" (The New Yorker)--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral.

Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030747500X
• ISBN13: 9780307475008
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"