Focus: Arthur Miller (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Miller, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141190043 ISBN 13: 9780141190044

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Product Description:

Paperback. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 240 Publisher: Penguin Classics A reticent personnel manager living with his Mother the 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.

From the Back Cover:

'The twentieth century was the century of Arthur Miller' Erica Wagner, The Times

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141190043
• ISBN 13: 9780141190044
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240