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In his old age, Philip Roth continues to write short, perceptive novels about death, the fragility of life at any age, and the difficulty of choice in a world of apparent chance. Roth's most recent novel, "Nemesis" has as its main character a likeable, athletic pysical education teacher, Eugene "Bucky" Cantor whose story ends unhappily due to accidents, his own conscientousness, and some questionable decisions. The book is set in Newark, New Jersey of 1944, particularly in the city's Jewish community. This is a location Roth knows intimately, and he describes it in this book with a feeling of nostalgia. Roth describes a polio epidemic during the summer at a time when Bucky was working as a playground director. The narrator of the story is, for a time, left ambiguous. Hints in the first sentence and elsewhere show that the book does not have an outside, "omnisicent" narrator. But only in the final section of the novel is it made clear that the narrator was a young boy of 12, Arnie Mesnikoff, when he contacted polio in 1944 on Bucky's playground. Bucky also becomes a victim of polio. When the two men meet in Newark in the early 1970's, Bucky tells Arnie his story, recounted in the novel.

Bucky's mother died in childbirth and his father was a small-time criminal who abandoned the boy. Thus Bucky was raised by his maternal grandparents who loved the child but made him feel insecure due to his perceived lack of a real "family". To Bucky's regret, he is rejected for service in WW II due to his poor vision, but he is otherwise physically tough and an excellent athlete. He becomes a physical education teacher with the laudable if limited goal of becoming the head of the physical education program at a Newark high school some day.

During the first part of the book, Bucky struggles diligently with the increasingly severe polio epidemic during his work as a playground director. But the heat, the tension, the feelings of responsibility, and the calls of Bucky's girlfriend, Miriam, who is working at a summer camp in the Pennsylvania Poconos prove too much. With a feeling of guilt, Bucky leaves the playground to work as the director of swimming at the camp, when the earlier director gets drafted. At the camp, Bucky has the opportunity for a physical relationship with Miriam which had hertofore been rare. Bucky also hopes to escape from the scourge of polio, but this is not to be. Bucky feels he is responsible for transporting the polio from Newark to the camp. He blames himself and he blames God. Never an observant Jew, Bucky never brings himself to question God's existence. He concludes that God allows the polio epidemic and other inexplicable human sufferings to take place and is evil, not worthy of worship.

Bucky never comes to terms with the polio which cripples him and which kills or cripples many others. He also regrets his inability to serve in the military, where a dear friend dies during the invasion of France, and his decision to leave Newark in the midst of the epidemic. Most importantly, he regrets the denouement of his relationship to Miriam after he contacts polio. The reader meets him late in life, sad and alone with no hopes and with little understanding of himself or of his peculiar theology.

The book features a portrayal of Newark in the 1940's and the early 1970s together with an appreciation of the hard-working and essentially decent Jewish community of Roth's own youth. Roth's own outlook on the questions raised in the book remains, I think, uncompromisingly secular. The novel is a poignant tale of a young man with many strengths who, for all his virtues, is unable to respond adequately to the difficult chances with which he is faced. "Nemesis" is an eloquent late work of a major American writer.

Robin Friedman


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Nemesis A Harry Hole Novel Jo Nesbo Don Bartlett Books Reviews

If you have read the previous Harry Hole 'Nemesis' first, it would surely be hard to deny that this was an excellent conclusion to what began as Hole's greatest hostile threat in his life coming from within his own rank and file police force. The finale was nail bitingly exciting when Harry had to rescue himself and his two dependents from his cold blooded nemeisis. A deadly clash, complete with blood, gore and bone crunching amputation. Harry needed ingenious psychological games to counter and outsmart his rabidly incensed enemy to save his own skin. The Devil's Star A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series), the fifth in the series and absolutely the best for me so far. I actually read this 5th Harry adventure few years back as my first in the series and promptly got hopelessly hooked on Harry like a junkie for Norwegian crime fiction. Determined to enjoy the series the right manner I went to the beginning with Harry's international ventures, first in Australia withThe Bat A Harry Hole Novel (1) (Harry Hole Series), then his adventure in the land of 'me so horny love u long time' in Cockroaches The Second Inspector Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole series Book 2). Intimacy with Harry naturally grew with familiarity as we read the series chronologically to understand the various important events in our long suffering and self conflicted detective. We see Harrys pains were mostly self inflicted because he shoulders the blame when bad things happen, like with his partner's murder by Prince. Rather if he could just accept that everything happens according to destiny's arrangement he would not fester and wallow so much in self pity, wasting precious energy and time and missing out on living life. As we immerse ourselves in the life and work of Harry, we inevitably also become deliciously acquainted with his sidekicks such as his supportive boss 'Møller, who saw Harry's brilliant detective skills was willing to accommodate Hole's frequent inebriation and unorthodox means to solve a case. Key to Harry's success was also having a competent and righteous forensic partner 'Lønn' and his loyal drug dispensing taxi driver, computer hacking expert friend, Øystein. Without these three, Harry's path would definitely have been more treacherous and fruitless. The writings of author Nesbø have markedly improved with each new offerings. He injected more humor, twists, mysteries, history, human psychic analysis and ticklish pop culture references. In Devils Star, Nesbø spun a complex web of human lives with ambitions and lusts from all walks of lives including professionals, artistes, the religious and thugs. Like a juicy 'who dun it' crime mystery, the story has a few murder suspects that kept us speculating as we read along. Nesbø threw us several curved balls to elicit wild speculations and wrong guesses from his readers. The devil was really in the details. With the help of his trustworthy boss, intelligent shrink, loyal childhood friend aka somnolence drug dispenser, beloved girlfriend and her child giving meaning to Harry's at times self destructive life, a sober Hole was on the other hand, a workaholic, brilliantly efficient, clever, brutishly funny, confident and a lean mean killing machine. Highly resourceful and second guessing his enemy, he finally exposed the serial murderer and his motives, and also confronting his great nemesis in the end. Yet touchingly the author showed sympathy to the baddies as reflected in our hero Hole uncovering their motives by answering the question 'why?'. Nesbo gave us enough extenuating background details to the inevitable crooked paths our villains had taken. What began in the prologue as a seemingly unrelated introduction of bricklaying profession in the olden days and the secret ingredient they use to fortify the walls came full circle with a brilliant sentence in the concluding line. A recurring statement in the story was that lust will always find the lowest level. So did the demise of the dirty cop. In the basement. Such was the wit and intelligence and excellent writing skills of Jo Nesbø that filled this novel. To fully appreciate the beauty, It is best read of course in the Norwegian language if you can. I did that.
The Devil’s Star is the fifth book in the Harry Hole series. Hole has sunken further into his obsession with figuring out who killed his ex-partner and is still struggling to overcome his alcoholism. His boss and biggest supporter has lost all faith in him and has given him his last warning as well as his last case. Can Hole figure out who the methodical satanic killer who has been terrorizing Oslo is?

This is the weakest book in the Hole series so far and it’s hard for me to explain why without spoilers so I’ll keep this review as ambiguous as possible and compare Devil’s Star to the books that came before it.

Firstly, the plot is not as complicated or as intriguing as the plots in The Redbreast or Nemesis. It’s just another serial killer hunt and for the first time in the series Hole’s alcoholism felt like a contrived plot device. Secondly, I didn’t understand why the chosen killer was selected as the killer by Nesbo. The motive was feeble and preposterous and the entrapment strange.

Finally, there were a lot of characters and a lot of sub-stories that were completely unnecessary. The book felt really busy and all of these characters and sub-stories were distracting. The only reason I enjoyed the book was because we finally got the showdown between Hole and his arch-enemy Tom Waaler.
In his old age, Philip Roth continues to write short, perceptive novels about death, the fragility of life at any age, and the difficulty of choice in a world of apparent chance. Roth's most recent novel, "Nemesis" has as its main character a likeable, athletic pysical education teacher, Eugene "Bucky" Cantor whose story ends unhappily due to accidents, his own conscientousness, and some questionable decisions. The book is set in Newark, New Jersey of 1944, particularly in the city's Jewish community. This is a location Roth knows intimately, and he describes it in this book with a feeling of nostalgia. Roth describes a polio epidemic during the summer at a time when Bucky was working as a playground director. The narrator of the story is, for a time, left ambiguous. Hints in the first sentence and elsewhere show that the book does not have an outside, "omnisicent" narrator. But only in the final section of the novel is it made clear that the narrator was a young boy of 12, Arnie Mesnikoff, when he contacted polio in 1944 on Bucky's playground. Bucky also becomes a victim of polio. When the two men meet in Newark in the early 1970's, Bucky tells Arnie his story, recounted in the novel.

Bucky's mother died in childbirth and his father was a small-time criminal who abandoned the boy. Thus Bucky was raised by his maternal grandparents who loved the child but made him feel insecure due to his perceived lack of a real "family". To Bucky's regret, he is rejected for service in WW II due to his poor vision, but he is otherwise physically tough and an excellent athlete. He becomes a physical education teacher with the laudable if limited goal of becoming the head of the physical education program at a Newark high school some day.

During the first part of the book, Bucky struggles diligently with the increasingly severe polio epidemic during his work as a playground director. But the heat, the tension, the feelings of responsibility, and the calls of Bucky's girlfriend, Miriam, who is working at a summer camp in the Pennsylvania Poconos prove too much. With a feeling of guilt, Bucky leaves the playground to work as the director of swimming at the camp, when the earlier director gets drafted. At the camp, Bucky has the opportunity for a physical relationship with Miriam which had hertofore been rare. Bucky also hopes to escape from the scourge of polio, but this is not to be. Bucky feels he is responsible for transporting the polio from Newark to the camp. He blames himself and he blames God. Never an observant Jew, Bucky never brings himself to question God's existence. He concludes that God allows the polio epidemic and other inexplicable human sufferings to take place and is evil, not worthy of worship.

Bucky never comes to terms with the polio which cripples him and which kills or cripples many others. He also regrets his inability to serve in the military, where a dear friend dies during the invasion of France, and his decision to leave Newark in the midst of the epidemic. Most importantly, he regrets the denouement of his relationship to Miriam after he contacts polio. The reader meets him late in life, sad and alone with no hopes and with little understanding of himself or of his peculiar theology.

The book features a portrayal of Newark in the 1940's and the early 1970s together with an appreciation of the hard-working and essentially decent Jewish community of Roth's own youth. Roth's own outlook on the questions raised in the book remains, I think, uncompromisingly secular. The novel is a poignant tale of a young man with many strengths who, for all his virtues, is unable to respond adequately to the difficult chances with which he is faced. "Nemesis" is an eloquent late work of a major American writer.

Robin Friedman