(Fiction, 240 p. 1945)
A reticent personnel manager living with his mother shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbors, until he begins wearing glasses and others start to mistake him for a Jew. Playwright Miller’s only novel investigates the insidious effects of increasing antisemitism in 1945 New York.
Kirkus Review
Review by Charles Poore, New York Times, November 24, 1945
Review by Evelyn Sheffner, Commentary Magazine, February 1, 1946
Arthur Miller’s Focus by Ami Eden, excerpted and reprinted from “A World in Which
Everything Hurts” published in the Forward (July 30, 2004).
