Go Set a Watchman - Softcover

Lee, Harper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062409867 ISBN 13: 9780062409867

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2016

Synopsis

#1 New York Times Bestseller

"Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." -- New York Times

A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch--"Scout"--returns home to Maycomb, Alabama 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 painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past--a journey that can only be guided by one's own conscience.

Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of the late 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.

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Review:

"Go Set a Watchman provides valuable insight into the generous, complex mind of one of America's most important authors."--USA Today

"Harper Lee's second novel sheds more light on our world than its predecessor did."--Time

"Don't let 'Go Set a Watchman' change the way you think about Atticus Finch...the hard truth is that a man such as Atticus, born barely a decade after Reconstruction to a family of Southern gentry, would have had a complicated and tortuous history with race."--Los Angeles Times

"Go Set a Watchman comes to us at exactly the right moment. All important works of art do. They come when we don't know how much we need them."--Chicago Tribune

"What makes Go Set a Watchman memorable is its sophisticated and even prescient view of the long march for racial justice. Remarkably, a novel written that long ago has a lot to say about our current struggles with race and inequality."--Chicago Tribune

"[Go Set a Watchman] captures some of the same small-town Southern humor and preoccupation with America's great struggle: race."--Columbus Dispatch

"Go Set a Watchman's gorgeous opening is better than we could have expected."--Vanity Fair

"Go Set a Watchman is more complex than Harper Lee's original classic. A satisfying novel... it is, in most respects, a new work, and a pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event."--The Guardian

"A coming-of-age novel in which Scout becomes her own woman...Go Set a Watchman's voice is beguiling and distinctive, and reminiscent of Mockingbird. (It) can't be dismissed as literary scraps from Lee's imagination. It has too much integrity for that."--The Independent

"A deftly written tale... there's something undeniably comforting and familiar about sinking into Lee's prose once again."--People

Book Description:

A new novel from the author of To Kill a Mockingbird

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062409867
• ISBN 13: 9780062409867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288