Go Set a Watchman: The landmark follow-up to the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird
Jul 2015 · Random House
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THE LANDMARK SECOND NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST WRITERS
'A pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event' GUARDIAN
'Beguiling and distinctive' INDEPENDENT
'Warm, sardonic ... wryly funny' SUNDAY TIMES
'Perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades' NEW YORK TIMES
'Compelling in its timeliness' WASHINGTON POST
‘Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.’
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing 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.
Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, and set twenty years after Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Go Set a Watchman is an unforgettable story.
'A pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event' GUARDIAN
'Beguiling and distinctive' INDEPENDENT
'Warm, sardonic ... wryly funny' SUNDAY TIMES
'Perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades' NEW YORK TIMES
'Compelling in its timeliness' WASHINGTON POST
‘Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.’
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing 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.
Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, and set twenty years after Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Go Set a Watchman is an unforgettable story.
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Lauren Peacock
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July 26, 2015
Honestly... felt betrayed. It really distressed me. To Kill a Mockingbird felt timeless and had such beautiful thematic tones. I would have disliked this book even if it was not by Harper Lee and a sort of sequel to TKAM but the fact that it was led me to hate it. Too much of the book was painful bigoted. Even the protagonist casually agreed to painfully racist propositions. The heros of the first book were systematically destroyed here.
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John Jennings
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August 26, 2015
From a slow start to a well paced page turner revealing a shocking secret. Atticus Finch the hero who stands up for the rights of the down trodden Negro is a racist. The novel theme of bigotry seems to leave us with the conclusion that bigots, if they believe in and stand up for the rule of law, are acceptable. Apparently this was a first draft and it shows. It certainly needs editting and at its messy finish I was left totally disatisfied wondering why it was published in that state.
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Richard Parnell
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September 5, 2015
I'm not a big reader but having decided to finally read TKAM, I was excited hearing the news that a 'sequel' would be coming out. I've just finished it and wondering why I bothered. Very little about Jem and how he, well I won't spoil it for those that haven't read it, which I found really disappointing. It never really seemed to get going for me and before I knew it....the end!!
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About the author
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016.
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