Go Set a Watchman : A Novel JVVA743981647409

Go Set a Watchman
Author(s): Harper Lee

#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 (Opinion Pages)

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

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise FinchScoutreturns 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 Louises 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 pasta journey that can only be guided by ones 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 precisiona 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.

Review(s):
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
Watchman is compelling in its timeliness.
Go Set a Watchman provides valuable insight into the generous, complex mind of one of Americas most important authors.
Dont let Go Set a Watchman change the way you think about Atticus Finchthe 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. That this doesnt emerge in To Kill a Mockingbird, then, may be one of that books failings, a tendency to sugarcoat, to oversimplify. The Atticus in Go Set a Watchman, in other words, is likely closer to the way such a man would actually have been.
Harper Lees second novel sheds more light on our world than its predecessor did.
[Go Set a Watchman] contains the familiar pleasures of Ms. Lees writing- the easy, drawling rhythms, the flashes of insouciant humor, the love of anecdote.
the voice we came to know so well in To Kill a Mockingbird - funny, ornery, rulebreaking - is right here in Go Set a Watchman, too, as exasperating and captivating as ever.
A significant aspect of this novel is that it asks us to see Atticus now not merely as a hero, a god, but as a flesh-and-blood man with shortcomings and moral failing, enabling us to see ourselves for all our complexities and contradictions.
The success of Go Set a Watchman... lies both in its depiction of Jean Louise reckoning with her fathers beliefs, and in the manner by which it integrates those beliefs into the Atticus we know.
Go Set a Watchmans greatest asset may be its role in sparking frank discussion about Americas woeful track record when it comes to racial equality.



ISBN:9780062409850