Philip Roth: Nemesis, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Nemesis
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins, 08/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780063499362
- Item number:
- 12689435
- Volume:
- 208 Pages
- Weight:
- 295 g
- Format:
- 203 x 135 mm
- Thickness:
- 12 mm
- Release date:
- 11.8.2026
- Note
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Blurb
"Roth's book has the elegance of a fable and the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama." ---The New Yorker
"Painful and powerful.... Somberly but vividly, [Roth] recreates the panic and fear triggered by polio." ---USA Today
In the stifling summer heat of 1944, a terrifying wartime polio outbreak stalks a close-knit, family-oriented New Jersey community and its children.
At the center of Nemesis is twenty-three-year-old playground director Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and weightlifter who is devoted to his charges and 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---and on the everyday realities he faces---Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewilderment, suffering, and pain.
Moving between the smoldering streets of Newark and 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 and no less exact about the condition of childhood.
Biography
Philip Roth wurde 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, geboren. Für sein Werk wurde er mit allen bedeutenden amerikanischen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet. Im Jahre 2001 erhielt er die höchste Auszeichnung der American Academy of Arts and Letters, die Goldmedaille für Belletristik, die alle sechs Jahre für das Gesamtwerk eines Autors verliehen wird. 2006 wurde Philiph Roth mit dem "Pen/Nabokov-Preis" ausgezeichnet, 2007 erhielt er den "Saul-Bellow-Preis" des Schriftsteller-Verbands, 2009 den "Welt"-Literaturpreis und 2011 wurde er mit dem "Man Booker International Prize" ausgezeichnet. Im Jahr 2012 wurde ihm der Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis in der Kategorie Literatur verliehen.