{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Clifford Garstang's review of Nemesis","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/nemesis-39621bf8-9e5b-4b28-a1ad-a2d17ccb9fa0/reviews/@cliffgarstang","author_name":"Clifford Garstang","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/@cliffgarstang","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;Such an odd little book. I was interested in the subject because my uncle, who died in the \u0026amp;#39;50s, contracted polio as a child in the \u0026amp;#39;20s. And although it\u0026amp;#39;s a dark story–finding happiness in a story about polio just wouldn\u0026amp;#39;t be real, I suppose–it held my attention. The narrator is a man who, as a boy, contracted polio during an epidemic in Newark New Jersey in 1944 (a fictional epidemic, I gather), but the focus of his tale is Bucky Cantor, then a 23-year-old athlete and playground director who was kept out of the Army because of his eyesight. Any more would spoil the plot, but for most of the book, I was engrossed. Up to a point, Bucky is a sympathetic character, but he makes a bad choice (possibly more than one), and that introduced too much melodrama for me.\u0026lt;/p\u0026gt;","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/59578896/73132044a444a91b4a506bf0e87ab88007c8e1f1.jpeg","thumbnail_width":128,"thumbnail_height":212}