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978-0-06-240985-0. Go Set a Watchman is a novel by Harper Lee that was published in 2015 by HarperCollins (US) and Heinemann (UK). Written before her only other published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Go Set a Watchman was initially promoted as a sequel by its publishers. It is now accepted that it was a first draft of To Kill a ...
Jul 14, 2015 · In a way, Go Set A Watchman is neither a sequel nor an undeveloped manuscript. In a way, Go Set a Watchman is an alternative version altogether - like a standalone book so far removed in character, voice, plot, style even, from To Kill a Mockingbird that comparison by their differences becomes more exhausting than a comparison by their similarities.
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Jul 13, 2015 · Her latest book, Go Set a Watchman, is a sequel set 20 years later, but was completed prior to Mockingbird. Written in the third person, the novel follows the now grown-up Scout Finch on her ...
Jul 16, 2015 · Go Set a Watchman is either the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, ... Go Set a Watchman is a portrait of a particular historical moment when the South knew it was under siege by the forces of ...
- It’S A Sequel to to Kill A Mockingbird
- She Wrote It Before ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’
- She Is Reclusive
- People Are Celebrating on Social Media
- Not Everyone Is Happy
As stated above, Go Set a Watchman will be a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout has been living in New York and is returning to Alabama to visit her father, Atticus Finch. In the publisher’s statement, Penguin Random House Divisional Managing Director Susan Sandon says:
Lee had written Go Set a Watchman before To Kill a Mockingbirdbut set it aside to work on the latter. She then thought it had been lost in its entirety. In the publisher’s statement, Lee says: Penguin Random House CEO Tom Weldon says: It will come out 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbirddebuted.
Lee is notoriously reclusive. After publishing To Kill a Mockingbirdin 1960, she settled into her life in Monroeville, Alabama, and hasn’t made any media appearances since. The Guardian reports: Lee, now 88, is deaf and nearly blind. She filed two lawsuits in 2013, one alleging that her former agent’s son-in-law tricked her into signing over the ri...
The news took social media platforms like Twitter by storm. In an age of Kardashians and Real Housewives, people were happy to celebrate real American culture.
Despite the jubilant reception to the sequel news, Lee has her critics. The Guardian reports: To pre-order Go Set a Watchman, click here.
Rediscovered last autumn, Go Set a Watchman is essentially a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, although it was finished earlier. The 304-page book will be Lee’s second, and the first new work in ...
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Feb 4, 2015 · Set for release on July 14, Go Set a Watchman will have an initial print run of 2 million copies, which he said was at the level "of a major best-seller." Here's a transcript of our interview with ...
