Nemesis, English edition
(Sprache: Englisch)
An absolutely brilliant new novel by one of the world's great writers.
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An absolutely brilliant new novel by one of the world's great writers.
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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 and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new 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.At the centre of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful, twenty-three-year old playground director, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and a 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: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering, and the pain.
Moving between the smouldering,malodorous streets of besieged 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.
Through this story runs the dark question that haunts all four of Roth's late short novels, Everyman , Indignation , The Humbling , and now, Nemesis : what choices fatally shape a life? How powerless is each of us up against the force of circumstances?
Autoren-Porträt von Philip Roth
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philip Roth
- 2011, 304 Seiten, Maße: 11 x 17,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0099555336
- ISBN-13: 9780099555339
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Roth's book has the elegance of a fable and the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama."--"The New Yorker" "An artfully constructed, suspenseful novel with a cunning twist towards the end."--J. M. Coetzee, "New York Review of Books" "Elegant. . . . Suffused with precise and painful tenderness. . . . Stands out for its warmth." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Painful and powerful. . . . Somberly but vividly, [Roth] recreates the panic and fear triggered by polio." --"USA Today" "A perfectly proportioned Greek tragedy played out against the background of the polio epidemic that swept Newark, New Jersey, during the summer of 1944." --"Financial Times"" " "Like a very well-executed O. Henry story. . . . A parable about the embrace of conscience. . . .and what its suffocating, life-denying consequences can be." -Michiko Kakutani, "The""New York Times" "Yet another small triumph from one of our native artists largest in spirit. And by small Il
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