The paperback edition of Roth's latest novel, set in 1940s New Jersey during an epidemic of polio. Roth has recently been awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his lifetime of work, and his acclaimed novels include }American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint{ and }The Human Stain{. '}Nemesis{ is brief, astoundingly assured and devastating' Chris Wayell, }Time Out It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries.
