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Within the "sweltering warmth of equatorial Newark," a frightening crisis is raging, threatening the kids of the Brand New Jersey town with paralysis, maiming, life-long disability, and even death. This is actually the theme of Philip Roth’s wrenching new book: a wartime polio outbreak in summer time of 1944 and the result it's on the closely-knit, family-focused Newark group and its children. In the middle of Enemy is just a energetic, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground representative, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and weightlifter, who's dedicated to his costs and dissatisfied with herself since his fragile eyes have omitted him from helping in the battle alongside his competitors. As polio begins to ravage his playground—and on the daily facts concentrating on Cantor’s problems we are faces—Roth led by him through every inch of feeling this type of pestilence may reproduce: the stress, worries, the rage, the bewilderment, the struggling, and the discomfort.