Nemesis
Roman
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- CHF 15.00
Beschreibung des Verlags
Eine schreckliche Epidemie bedroht im brütend heißen Sommer von 1944 die Einwohner von Newark: Polio. Der Sportlehrer Bucky Cantor kümmert sich hingebungsvoll um seine Schüler. Nach Ausbruch der Krankheit versucht er, in einer von Angst, Panik und Leid gezeichneten Situation die Ruhe zu bewahren, doch vergeblich. "Nemesis" ist die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes in Amerika mit besten Absichten, der einen aussichtslosen Kampf führt. In seinem neuen Meisterwerk zeichnet Roth mit bestechender Präzision und großer Einfühlungsgabe jeden Schritt von Cantors Weg in die persönliche Katastrophe.
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Roth continues his string of small, anti Horatio Alger novels (The Humbling; etc.) with this underwhelming account of Bucky Cantor, the young playground director of the Chancellor Avenue playground in 1944 Newark. When a polio outbreak ravages the kids at the playground, Bucky, a hero to the boys, becomes spooked and gives in to the wishes of his fianc e, who wants him to take a job at the Pocono summer camp where she works. But this being a Roth novel, Bucky can't hide from his fate. Fast-forward to 1971, when Arnie Mesnikoff, the subtle narrator and one of the boys from Chancellor, runs into Bucky, now a shambles, and hears the rest of his story of piercing if needless guilt, bad luck, and poor decisions. Unfortunately, Bucky's too simple a character to drive the novel, and the traits that make him a good playground director not very bright, quite polite, beloved, straight thinking make him a lackluster protagonist. For Roth, it's surprisingly timid.
