Is anyone as excited as I am about this!?!? Release date for the book is July 14th, can’t wait to get my hands on it!!
OverviewAn historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.
Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.
I would really like to read it…
and I am more excited then you @khattichic…
I will have to hunt the city down for a copy though.. cause they mostly keep stuff like.." Suhag k liye" “Kash k tum khte” etc. etc. etc. etc.
till I get one.. will read that again…
Just the Atticus pages.. :wub:
Here is to wishing that hunting the city down for a book is conducted in an environmentally responsible way.
Dude.. I ride a stupid bike.. the whole day.. people make fun of me.. but I still do... so stop badgering with the environment.. or do you wanna get back in the cupboard...:p
Have about three other books to complete before I will let myself pick this up.
Why is there so much hoopla about Atticus being portrayed as a racist in this manuscript?
Maybe I need to read To Kill A Mockingbird again but if memory serves then there were clear signs of racist traits in his personality in there too.
I can easily understand how the publisher may have asked for edits to tone it down.....
Just finished this.
Can I say, I absolutely loved it.
I'm very sad that Harper Lee's writing days are over.
Her characters!! The charm! I loved it all. She writes so to grab you by the neck and throw you against a wall. (or slap you in the mouth - minor spoiler)
At first the whole Atticus thing threw me off; but by the ending I broadened my mind enough to see WHY he was this way; even though by no standards moral or economical would I ever agree with him.
I was majorly turned off to the book because no one seems to like it - I personally enjoyed it quite a bit.
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