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| Original Title: | Go Set a Watchman |
| ISBN: | 0062409859 (ISBN13: 9780062409850) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Characters: | Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, Aunt Alexandra, Henry "Hank" Clinton, Jack Finch |
| Setting: | Maycomb, Alabama(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction (2015), Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2015) |
Harper Lee
Hardcover | Pages: 278 pages Rating: 3.31 | 218484 Users | 28789 Reviews
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| Title | : | Go Set a Watchman (To Kill a Mockingbird) |
| Author | : | Harper Lee |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 278 pages |
| Published | : | July 14th 2015 by HarperCollins |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Audiobook. Adult. Adult Fiction |
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From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—"Scout"—returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past—a journey that can be guided only by one's conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to an American classic.Rating Containing Books Go Set a Watchman (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Ratings: 3.31 From 218484 Users | 28789 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books Go Set a Watchman (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Every mans island, Jean Louise, every mans watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious. Important things to understand about Go Set a Watchman: It is not exactly a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird. If you go into it thinking of it as a sequel, you will be disappointed. This book was never supposed to be published. For most of her life, Harper Lee did not want it to be published. There's a lot of sketchiness surrounding the publication of this book. You can readI've seen that this book has been getting so much flack lately. But that's probably because everyone's treating it like manna from heaven and are therefore disappointed when it's not perfect. Let's remember this very important fact: Go Set a Watchman was written and then shelved by Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird instead. Hmm... there's probably a reason she opted to do that. I, for one, loved this book for the simple reason that it isn't all sunshine and rainbows. It shows that how
When I read To Kill a Mockingbird for a second time this last May, I realized I didnt like Atticus Finch nearly as much as I remembered liking him. He seemed too perfect, almost frustratingly so. And as Scout is only a child narrating that story, she puts her father on a god-like pedestal that is understandable when everyone tells her how integrous and upright and honest he is.So while reading Go Set a Watchman, I couldnt help but be a bit pleased to see Atticus Finch humanized. I know,
If someone described the publication of this book as a money making racket I would find it hard to criticise. Even if the senile author had been manipulated into acceding to its publication, the kind of money that was growing on the trees would make it a mere peccadillo. But I suspect had Mr Finch been fortunate to live as long as his creator-author, he'd have taken umbrage at the moral failure on the part of the agents and publishers no?Be that as it may, this novel couldnt have appeared at a
"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. Go Set a Watchman was released this week and despite the warnings that reading this long awaited companion (it is NOT a sequel) to To Kill A Mockingbird may spoil everything I have ever believed about the story and its main characters, I read the book. Mostly, I wanted to see for myself how this supposed manuscript provided the material for one of my favourite books, how it was
So we all felt that praise was due to Atticus in Mockingbird because he defended a black kid accused of rape, unsuccessfully. And we all fell about slathering and slobbering with joy that such a wonderful example of humanity could have come out of such racist times. So much so it's a standard school curriculum book.But we were wrong. He didn't defend the kid from any feeling of the equal humanity of blacks and whites. Not a bit, Atticus was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and a firm racist,
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