Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird - Hardcover

Murphy, Mary Mcdonagh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061924075 ISBN 13: 9780061924071

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

Synopsis

Publisher: HarperTorch; First Edition 2010

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Review:

"You come away from Murphy's book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novel."--Entertainment Weekly

You come away from Murphy s book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novel. --Entertainment Weekly"

And that s really what reading this book is like: attending a big book club meeting with 26 lovers of To Kill a Mockingbird. --Los Angeles Times"

"And that's really what reading this book is like: attending a big book club meeting with 26 lovers of To Kill a Mockingbird."--Los Angeles Times

From the Back Cover:

To Kill a Mockingbird may well be our national novel. It is the first adult novel that many of us remember reading, one book that millions of us have in common. It sells nearly a million copies a year, more than any other twentieth-century American classic. Harper Lee's first and only novel, published in July 1960, is a beloved classic and touchstone in American literary and social history.

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird, Mary McDonagh Murphy reviews its history and examines how the novel has left its mark on a broad range of novelists, historians, journalists, and artists.

In compelling interviews, Anna Quindlen, Tom Brokaw, Oprah Winfrey, James Patterson, James McBride, Scott Turow, Wally Lamb, Andrew Young, Richard Russo, Adriana Trigiani, Rick Bragg, Jon Meacham, Allan Gurganus, Diane McWhorter, Lee Smith, Rosanne Cash, and others reflect on when they first read the novel, what it means to them—then and now—and how it has affected their lives and careers. Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a lively appreciation of the many ways in which the novel has made—and continues to make—a difference to generations of readers.

Harper Lee has not given an interview since 1964, but Murphy's reporting, research, and rare interviews with the author's sister and friends stitch together a brief history of how the novel, as well as the acclaimed 1962 movie, came to be.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061924075
• ISBN 13: 9780061924071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 217