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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
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Go Set a Watchman

Harper Lee's sensational lost novel
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Length 6 hours 57 minutes
Language English
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Summary

Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her fatherโ€™s attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood. An instant classic.

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Reviews

A new work, and a pleasure, revelation and genuine literary eventโ€ฆGo Set a Watchman shakes the settled view of both an author and her novelโ€ฆThis publication intensifies the regret that Harper Lee published so little. Go Set a Watchman is the more radical, ambitious and politicised of the two novels Lee has now publishedโ€ฆIt has contemporary relevance where Mockingbird is safely sealed off as a piece of American historyโ€ฆIt does not undermine Mockingbird but it makes a reassessment of that story absolutely necessaryโ€ฆIt is a book of enormous literary interestโ€ฆBeguiling and distinctive, and reminiscent of Mockingbirdโ€ฆGo Set a Watchman canโ€™t be dismissed as literary scraps from Leeโ€™sโ€™ imagination. It has too much integrity for that. More edgy and thought provoking [than To Kill a Mockingbird] โ€ฆ It has a power to it beyond being a mere historical curio or more lit crit material for Harper Lee studiesโ€ฆ Eccentric characters are brightly drawn. There is Leeโ€™s trademark warmth, some droll lines and the sense of place and time is strongโ€ฆ[It has] a surprisingly provocative message โ€” donโ€™t airily dismiss the prejudices of others, try to understand them. The flashes of lyrical genius and ability to evoke the intensity of childhood play that come to fruition in To Kill a Mockingbird are in evidenceโ€ฆItโ€™s nowhere near the novel Mockingbird is. It is much better than thatโ€ฆWhat Watchman tells us, and tells us rather powerfully, is that racism is not confined to people who are so clearly not like usโ€ฆWatchman is for grown-ups. It asks serious questions about what racism is. And it comes at a time when American desperately needs a grown-up conversation about race. Iโ€™m happy to report that most of the caveats and conspiracy theories surrounding Go Set a Watchman melt away as you read the opening chapters and reacquaint yourself with that beguiling Harper Lee narrative style โ€” warm, sardonic, amused by male folly and social pretension, wryly funny, a sassy Southern voice, Mark Twain with a dash of Katharine Hepburn. Expand reviews
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