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, and even death. This is the startling and surprising theme ofRoth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of1944 and the effect it has on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children. At the center of NEMISIS is a vigorous, dutiful, 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 everday 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 smoldering, 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 depics 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 kind of accidental choices fatally shape a life? How powerless is each of us up against the force of circumstance?
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很传统的叙事，具有传统叙事的传统力量，不过罗斯喜欢把那些力量用很明白的语言表述出来（这一点我倒不喜欢，虽然那些话非常有启发），而且是关于无奈的力量。把一个游于高空白云间的人先慢慢把玩，给一些凶兆，再猛地把他摔到地上，这本书就是这样的故事。 p.s.最前面几页真是无比新闻
评分还是蛮好读的
评分虽然隐隐有预感，如此急转而下仍是一次暴击。坐在培训的教室里，我失魂落魄
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