Description
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. Paperback , 240 pages Published March 5th 2009 by Penguin Classics (first published 1945)
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. Paperback , 240 pages Published March 5th 2009 by Penguin Classics (first published 1945)