Nemesis [sound recording] / Philip Roth.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781441893116
- ISBN: 1441893113
- Physical Description: 5 sound discs (5 hr., 18 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, Inc..
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact discs. Duration: 5:18:00. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director, Nic Cameron. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Dennis Boutsikaris. |
Summary, etc.: | In the stifling heat of 1944 Newark, a wartime epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with paralysis, life-long disability, and even death. |
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Subject: | Poliomyelitis > Fiction. Playgrounds > Fiction. Newark (N.J.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
Topic Heading: | Connecticut author |
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Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | CDA ROTH (Text) | 32518121098282 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
Nemesis
Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933. He attended Rutgers University for one year before transferring to Bucknell University where he completed a B.A. in English with highest honors in 1954. He received an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1955. His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, received the National Book Award in 1960. His other books include Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man, The Ghostwriter, Zuckerman Unbound, I Married a Communist, The Plot Against America, The Facts, The Anatomy Lesson, Exit Ghost, Deception, Nemesis, Everyman, Indignation, and The Humbling. He won the National Book Critic Circle Awards in 1987 for his novel The Counterlife and in 1992 for his memoir Patrimony: A True Story. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1993 for Operation Shylock: A Confession and in 2001 for The Human Stain, the National Book Award in 1995 for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for American Pastoral. He stopped writing in 2010. He died from congestive heart failure on May 22, 2018 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography)