Focus - Arthur Miller

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.