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Rated: 132 times. Average rating 4.98
Description
In a book set in 1944 Newark, devoted playground director Bucky Cantor, sidelined from the war due to his poor eyesight, watches in horror as the city's polio epidemic begins to ravage the children on his playground. By the best-selling author of The Humbling and The Plot Against America. 100,000 first printing.
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