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Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
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 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. 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 be guided only by one’s own conscience.
Written in the mid-1950's, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humour 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 a classic.
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- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket.
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Fiction : Classics
- Published : Written Mid-1950's (This Edition 2015 - Cornerstone - 1st Edition)
- ISBN : 9781785150289
- SKU : B000103
- PPC : SP500gm
- RRP : £18.99 (Unclipped)
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"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." - Goodreads Review.
"We have travelled into the past and returned to find that our present is not quite the same as we left it. Atticus Finch will never again be the white knight we once thought him. And yet the mockingbird still sings - no longer a song of innocence, but maybe one of experience; a song that combines sorrow, forgiveness - and, ultimately, a kind of hope." - Joanne Harris, Daily Mail.
"There are some flashes of genius . . . My favourite scene is at “a coffee”, where our rebellious Scout must make small talk with a bunch of married former acquaintances whom she deliberately hasn’t seen since school. Lee’s précis of their vapid conversation is hilarious, feminist and wickedly modern." - Katy Guest, Independent on Sunday.
"Go Set A Watchman is a powerful and moving novel . . . The opening chapters are slow and languorous, beautifully setting the scene. Lee’s unadorned style is lit up by the occasional sparkling metaphor." - Vanessa Berridge, Daily Express.
"A literary masterpiece, and an enjoyable one at that." (Natasha Harding Sun)
"Equally significant today, and imbued with Lee’s wisdom, humanity and humour." (Justine East Independent)
The Author
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Lee published only two books, yet she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature.