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Nemesis - Philip Roth Lucie van Rooijen From the allegories of TheIt's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground child by helpless child Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the