A review by thingtwo
Nemesis by Philip Roth

4.0

This is a delightfully simple novel, not an epic like Roth's Zuckerman series, but a straight forward simple tale of a young man who believes he is the cause of his neighborhood's polio epidemic. Roth's story builds the way a story should; things keep getting worse and worse for the poor Bucky Cantor, until the absolute worst thing that could happen does.

This book will be used, before long, in English Literature classes across the country, as an example of a perfectly told story. Roth is a writing genius, still.