Nemesis (Roth novel)
First edition | |
| Author | Philip Roth |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Published | 2010 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | 978-0-547-31835-6 |
| Preceded by | The Humbling |
Nemesis is a novel by Philip Roth published on October 5, 2010, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is Roth's 31st book, "a work of fiction set in the summer of 1944 that tells of a polio epidemic and its effects on a closely knit Newark community and its children." In 2012, Philip Roth told an interviewer that Nemesis would be his last novel.