From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of Eugene Debs Hartke-Vietnam veteran, jazz pianist, college professor, and prognosticator of the apocalypse. It's "Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special." (The Nation)
Focus
โ Scribed by Arthur Miller
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0241960150
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โฆ Synopsis
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.
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