I was about to post a note about Nemesis, Philip Roth's most recent novel, when, looking up the word "didactic" in my dictionary app I discovered quite by chance that tapping on a word there automatically opens my thesaurus app, and vice versa. Is that awesome or what? Now I will be spending the rest of the evening tapping on words.
Meanwhile, Roth's Nemesis is didactic in much the same way Upton Sinclair's books are and it is easy enough to skip the meditation at the end if that's your thing, although I found it easy enough to get through. The first part of the novel - the most of it - is about a polio epidemic in Newark in 1944 and is an absorbing story written in a manner one could fairly describe as courtly, and is an engrossing read.
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