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At the centre of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful, twenty-three-year old playground director, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower & a weightlifter, who is devoted to his charges & disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground
- & on the everyday realities he faces
- Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering, & the pain.

Moving between the smouldering, malodorous streets of besieged Newark & Indian Hill, a pristine children's summer camp high in the Poconos
- whose 'mountain air was purified of all contaminants'
- Roth depicts a decent, energetic man with the best intentions struggling in his own private war against the epidemic. Roth is tenderly exact at every point about Cantor's passage into personal disaster & no less exact about the condition of childhood.

Through this story runs the dark question that haunts all four of Roth's late short novels, Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, & now, Nemesis: what choices fatally shape a life? How powerless is each of us up against the force of circumstances?









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Nemesis

Tearing its way through space on a collision course for Earth is Nemesis, a fiery ball of destruction, a dwarf star as red as the colour of blood.

Circling Nemesis is Rotor, an Earth colony whose occupants have cut themselves off from the anarchy

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Tearing its way through space on a collision course for Earth is Nemesis, a fiery ball of destruction, a dwarf star as red as the colour of blood.

Circling Nemesis is Rotor, an Earth colony whose occupants have cut themselves off from the anarchy & degeneration of an old & wasted world.

For them Rotor is a kind of Ark.

And Nemesis is the Flood....

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