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‘Nemesis’ by Philip Roth

By Nancy Harris

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  January 26, 2012

Sarah Berman of Milton talks about the Philip Roth novel “Nemesis,’’ which deals with an outbreak of polio in the summer of 1944 in New Jersey. The book, she says, leaves you “pondering larger issues like fate, uncertainity and conscience.’’

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