Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilenc ...
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Nemesis
Unterstützte Lesegerätegruppen: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
Roth, Philip
E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
Random House (2010)
Gewicht: 0 g
ISBN-13: 978-1-4464-0110-1
Titelnr.: 50199100