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Focus

Focus

Miller, Arthur

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ISBN10: 0142000426
ISBN13: 9780142000427
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Sep 1 2001
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.23 Depth: 7.56
Language: English
Written in 1945, Focus was Arthur Miller's first novel and one of the first books to directly confront American anti-Semitism. It remains as chilling and incisive today as it was at the time of its controversial debut. As World War II draws to a close, anti-Semitism is alive and well in Brooklyn, New York. Here, Newman, an American of English descent, floats through a world of multiethnic neighborhoods indifferent to the racism around him. That is, until he begins to wear glasses that render him Jewish in the eyes of others, making him the target of anti-Semitic prosecution. As he and his wife find friendship and support from a Jewish immigrant, Newman slowly begins to understand the racial hatreds that surround him.

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