Nemesis
Registered by kingfan30 of Somewhere in Lincs 🤷‍♂️, Lincolnshire United Kingdom on 7/8/2019
4 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by kingfan30 from Somewhere in Lincs 🤷‍♂️, Lincolnshire United Kingdom on Monday, July 8, 2019
I’ve read three other books by this author and didn’t get on great with them, so this one has taken me a bit by surprise. It’s a sad story, I didn’t know much about Polio before reading this and although it’s still new to the characters in the book and a lot was still unknown about in that period, it did encourage me to look up a bit more about it as it left me with a lot of questions. You can understand Buckys reasonings but I wish he had got more advice or some councilling so that the outcome of his life was different.
Sent on as part of the wish list tag game
Arrived safely today. Thank you for the tag.
I’ve not read any other books by this author so wasn’t sure what to expect. I enjoyed the style but felt it ended quite abruptly which was a shame. I wasn’t aware of the seasonality of the polio outbreaks during 40s so an interesting read.
Off to Icila as part of the wish list tag game.
Off to Icila as part of the wish list tag game.
The book is here. Thank you brunton11 !
So sorry I forgot to say thank you for the beautiful mark page and the BC things.
When I received this book I was far from thinking that a few weeks later I w'd be reading it the middle of a pandemic. Awful and incredible.
Hoping for the best.
Hoping for the best.
"In the “stifling heat of equatorial Newark,” a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability, and even death. This is the startling theme of Philip Roth’s book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children. "
My August offer in greenbadger's "One book a month offered 2020".
Entering :
- Arvores
- vaga-bonde
My August offer in greenbadger's "One book a month offered 2020".
Entering :
- Arvores
- vaga-bonde
En route vers le sud, vers vaga-bonde.
Journal Entry 10 by 
vaga-bonde
at Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon France on Monday, September 7, 2020
vaga-bonde at Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon France on Monday, September 7, 2020
Thank you Icila for the chance to read another Philip Roth novel. It will make 2 happy readers in my household. Sadly, this one will not be released in NYC, we're not traveling there these days, for obvious reasons. Et merci pour la carte "tablette de chocolat" qui m'a fait bien rire!
Journal Entry 11 by vaga-bonde at Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon France on Sunday, September 27, 2020
vaga-bonde at Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon France on Sunday, September 27, 2020
How strange, and fitting at the same time, to be reading this book in the middle of the covid pandemic! Some of the descriptions of panic, possible confinement of parts of town, schools closed, movement restrictions, escape out of the city, feel so close to what we are living... The destiny of Bucky Cantor is so sad, and the idea of divine punishment (nemesis) typical Roth. A great novel, (although a very pessimistic last one) by a great writer. Thanks Icila for making two happy readers in my family!
