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- Although “Go Set a Watchman” sporadically generates the literary force that has buoyed “To Kill a Mockingbird” for over half a century, the new novel is not nearly as gripping as the courtroom drama and coming-of-age story it eventually became. The first hundred pages are largely desultory, though they do create a sense of anticipation.
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Jul 14, 2015 · The most dramatic feature of her “new” novel, “Go Set a Watchman” — written before “To Kill a Mockingbird” but published 55 years afterward — is the revelation that Atticus, the supposed...
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Jul 10, 2015 · Shockingly, in Ms. Lee ’s long-awaited novel, “Go Set a Watchman” (due out Tuesday), Atticus is a racist who once attended a Klan meeting, who says things like “The Negroes down here are ...
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Jul 14, 2015 · Lucy Scholes reads Go Set a Watchman to find out. Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird stands as a touchstone of heroism in the face of bigotry and injustice in the...
Feb 4, 2015 · 277,801 ratings33,043 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Winner for Best Fiction (2015) From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama.
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Jul 11, 2015 · Watchman is both a painful complication of Harper Lee’s beloved book and a confirmation that a novel read widely by schoolchildren is far more bitter than sweet.
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Jul 14, 2015 · In August 1944, Marie-Laure LeBlanc is a blind 16-year-old living in the walled port city of Saint-Malo in Brittany and hoping to escape the effects of Allied bombing. D-Day took place two months earlier, and Cherbourg, Caen and Rennes have already been liberated.
Feb 19, 2016 · Go Set a Watchman is a book about a daughter realising how she has blindly adored her father and conducting, through the politics of civil rights, her own private rebellion.
