Title: Nemesis
Description: In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death.
Subjects: Poliomyelitis, Playgrounds, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), New jersey, fiction, Patients, Epidemics, History, Recreation leaders, Social conditions, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2010-10-31, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, American literature, Fictional Works
Places: New Jersey, Newark, Newark (N.J.)
Time periods: 20th century