Date: 2011-06-07
Main Library Book Club: Nemesis by Philip Roth
7:00pm Booklist gives “Nemesis” a starred review. The story is set in the early 1940s, and our hero is Bucky Canter, playground director in a Jewish neighborhood of Newark. As a polio epidemic hits the city, Bucky sees many of his teenage charges succumb to the disease. When an opportunity to leave the city and work in a summer camp in the Catskills presents itself, Bucky is torn between personal safety and duty. Led by Bob Dodd.Framingham Public Library, Costin Room, 49 Lexington ST.
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