A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are any of his business. Until Newman begins wearing glasses, and others begin to mistake him for a Jew.
Arthur Miller's chilling novel displays the same searing moral precision and emotional intensity of his plays, as the intensity of anti-Semitism in 1945 New York mounts, and the prejudices Newman shares begin to turn threateningly against him.
| ISBN: | 9780141190044 |
| Publication date: | 5th March 2009 |
| Author: | Arthur Miller |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts Literary studies: plays and playwrights |
A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are any of his business. Until Newman begins wearing glasses, and others begin to mistake him for a Jew.
Arthur Miller's chilling novel displays the same searing moral precision and emotional intensity of his plays, as the intensity of anti-Semitism in 1945 New York mounts, and the prejudices Newman shares begin to turn threateningly against him.
Focus features in the following genres: Plays, playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Focus is available in Paperback
Focus was written by Arthur Miller and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Focus has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Classics series
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