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Philip Roth is well known to the Russian reader for the novel "The Brand of Man" and its film adaptation ("Stained Reputation", 2003) starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman. The story told in Nemesis, for all the ingenuity of the plot, is akin to an ancient Greek drama. The protagonist of the book - Eugene Cantor, nicknamed "Bucky" (Bull-calf), is an energetic, determined twenty-three-year-old weightlifter and javelin thrower, everyone's favorite. He, a physical education teacher, runs a summer sports ground, where every day he plays softball side by side with the guys. If not for poor eyesight, Bucky would have been in the active American army long ago, because it was 1944. That summer in his native Newark turned out to be as hot as ever, when a terrible epidemic of polio hit the city, daily claiming the lives of children. Conscious of duty, he tries to protect his students - all to no avail. Fear and panic, suffering and anger at the injustice of the world, lead the unbending Bucky into confusion. His beloved is trying to come to the rescue, but then an inexorable fate overtakes him ...

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ISBN 978-5-271-36287-3
Publisher АСТ
Format 76x108/32
Number of Pages 320
Book series Corpus
Bookbinding твердый

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