In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling & surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 & the effect it has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community & its children.

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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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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In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling & surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 & the effect it has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community & its children.

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?









...

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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Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise: Simon Pegg has been ploughing some bizarre furrows in recent times. Having blasted onto the small screens with his now legendary sitcom Spaced, his rise to nation ...

Nerilka's Story

It was in Moreta's time -- a time of legend, of heroic valor, of terrible Threadfall & the Great Plague

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With more than 14, 000 entries in her electronic address book, Carole Stone is a self-confessed people addict who has turned networking & making friends into an art form. Packed with top tips & real-life scenarios, this is your essential guide to getting on with people in all aspects of life.

You might be working your way up the career ladder, or have already reached the top; perhaps you

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Evie, Nic & Becca are wannabe writers. The three friends are members of a creative writing group & they decide to enter a national competition. But while they ponder their plots & agonise about their characters, their own lives are going far from smoothly.

Evie's still pining for the husband who left her for a younger woman & is relying increasingly on clairvoyant Zelda. But who is Zelda really?

Nic's battling a drink problem & is in despair about her workaholic husband who is addicted to his laptop. A shocking discovery shakes her to the core, but will she realise in time that she must stop protecting him?

Becca's a City highflyer who seems to have everything
- until a childhood friend turns up, threatening to expose the secret she's kept buried for nearly thirty years. How will her marriage, her children, her friendships survive it? & on top of that there's a deadline. The women have just eleven months to complete their manuscripts. Who will win the competition
- & can there be any real-life happy endings?







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Evie, Nic & Becca are wannabe writers. The three friends are members of a creative writing group & they decide to enter a national competition. But while they ponder their plots & agonise about their characters, their own lives are going far from smoothly.

Evie's still pining for the husband who left her for a younger woman & is relying increasingly on clairvoyant Zelda. But who is Zelda really?

Nic's battling a drink problem & is in despair about her workaholic husband who is addicted to his laptop. A shocking discovery shakes her to the core, but will she realise in time that she must stop protecting him?

Becca's a City highflyer who seems to have everything
- until a childhood friend turns up, threatening to expose the secret she's kept buried for nearly thirty years. How will her marriage, her children, her friendships survive it? & on top of that there's a deadline. The women have just eleven months to complete their manuscripts. Who will win the competition
- & can there be any real-life happy endings?







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