A deeply moving portrait of racism in Brooklyn during the final days of World War II. Mr. Newman is a small employee with big ambitions. From his glass office, he oversees the stenographers under his command. But one day, his eyesight begins to fail. When the doctor prescribes him glasses, his suffering begins. Suddenly, Newman appears "Jewish" in the eyes of those around him. Previously indifferent to racist slurs, he suddenly finds himself at the center of anti-Semitic hatred. The only novel by the great American playwright. Available again for the first time in decades.