Nemesis

In the stifling heat of 1944 Newark, a wartime epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with paralysis, life-long disability, and even death.

Main Author: Roth, Philip.
Other Authors: Boutsikaris, Dennis.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, Inc.,
Edition: Unabridged.
Series: Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Subjects:
Summary: In the stifling heat of 1944 Newark, a wartime epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with paralysis, life-long disability, and even death.
Item Description: Compact discs.
Duration: 5:18:00.
Physical Description: 5 sound discs (5 hr., 18 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Production Credits: Director, Nic Cameron.
ISBN: 9781441893116
1441893113
Author Notes: Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933. He attended Rutgers University for one year before transferring to Bucknell University where he completed a B.A. in English with highest honors in 1954. He received an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1955.

His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, received the National Book Award in 1960. His other books include Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man, The Ghostwriter, Zuckerman Unbound, I Married a Communist, The Plot Against America, The Facts, The Anatomy Lesson, Exit Ghost, Deception, Nemesis, Everyman, Indignation, and The Humbling. He won the National Book Critic Circle Awards in 1987 for his novel The Counterlife and in 1992 for his memoir Patrimony: A True Story. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1993 for Operation Shylock: A Confession and in 2001 for The Human Stain, the National Book Award in 1995 for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for American Pastoral. He stopped writing in 2010. He died from congestive heart failure on May 22, 2018 at the age of 85.

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