Go Set a Watchman
by Lee, Harper
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On Oct 6, 2015, KarenWright said
Having once lived in the south, I was impressed with this book, the long-awaited sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird", which shows the lives of a southern, upper, middle class family in a true light with all their quirks and failings. Also shows very nicely how Scout's view of the world and of her father, Atticus. She discovers he is human, can make mistakes and how adults sometimes need to work within a bad system to improve it. I like it very much; perhaps not quite as much as "Mockingbird", but I thought it was a perfect follow-up to one of the best books ever!
On Aug 11, 2015, CloggieDownunder said
Go Set a Watchman is the second published novel by American author, Harper Lee. It was written before To Kill A Mockingbird, but not published until 55 years after that book. Now twenty-six years old and living in New York, Jean Louise Finch travels to Maycomb for her regular two-week visit with her ageing father. Atticus is seventy-two and often debilitated by rheumatoid arthritis, but he does have young Henry Clifton to work his law practice, and his sister Alexandra lives in the Finch house to help with daily activities. Henry is pressing Jean Louise to marry him, and although Aunt Alexandra considers him unsuitable, Jean Louise finds herself actually thinking seriously about it: “She was almost in love with him. No, that’s impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren’t. Love’s the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it’s a you-do or you-don’t proposition with them all” But just a few days into her stay, she discovers, quite by chance, something that rocks her to the core, something that has her actually doubting the foundation of her values. Until then, “She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father. She never questioned it, never thought about it, never even realized that before she made any decision of importance the reflex, ‘What would Atticus do?’ passed through her unconscious; she never realized what made her dig in her feet and stand firm whenever she did was her father; that whatever was decent and of good report in her character was put there by her father; she did not know that she worshipped him” There has been quite some criticism of this book, and some of that is valid. Jean Louise’s rant in Part VI could certainly do with editing, and while it does not sparkle quite like To Kill A Mockingbird, and perhaps the characters are not quite as well-formed or appealing as that book, nonetheless, Go Set A Watchman has humour and wisdom. It forms a welcome complement to To Kill A Mockingbird, and Jean Louise’s reminiscences of her childhood are quite delightful. At least one passage is lifted wholly from this book and inserted into TKAM, perhaps hardly surprising. Lee’s character descriptions are every bit as good as in TKAM: “She was a person who, when confronted with an easy way out, always took the hard way” and “She was completely unaware that with one twist of the tongue she could plunge Jean Louise into a moral turmoil by making her niece doubt her own motives and best intentions, by tweaking the protestant, philistine strings of Jean Louise’s conscience until they vibrated like a spectral zither” are examples. A knowledge of Civil Rights legislation in the mid-fifties comes in handy, but Uncle Jack’s words of wisdom are as succinct and universally applicable as they ever were, as demonstrated by: “Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends” and “…the time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”. It’s not To Kill A Mockingbird, but it’s still a good read!
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New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. Signed Limited Collector's Edition. Fine. Special Collector's Edition, #402 of a limited 500 copies signed by Harper Lee. A Fine copy, in publisher's dark blue leather binding stamped in gilt, in a Fine blue cloth clamshell case, in Near Fine publisher's original mailing box, which is lightly bumped at the corners. An exquisite… Read more about this item Item Price
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William Heinemann. Very Good. 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.6 Inches. Hardcover. 2015. 278 pages. <br>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 âe âe~Scoutâe(tm) âe returns home from New York Cit y to visit her ageing… Read more about this item Item Price
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CLASSIC CHOICE.
From the author of 1961 Purlitzer prize winning, "To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee. She vowed never to write a second book, but here it is. She wrote only two novels, the classic above, and this book 55 years later, published the year before she died. A must for any literature lover.
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Go Set a Watchman
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New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. True First, First Printing . Hardcover. As New/Fine+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jarrod Taylor (DJ). Number line: 15 16 17 18 DES/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. July, 2015. 26-year-old ' Scout ' returns home to visit the aging Atticus at… Read more about this item Item Price
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[HARPER LEE]. GO SET A WATCHMAN. HarperCollins, New York, 2015. First Edition, First printing. True First Edition with full number line. Condition: Fine. Appears unread and mint, pages are clean and binding tight. Dust jacket is unclipped and about fine. In original publisher's black boards and type in silver gilt, blue endpapers and publishers blue ribbon bookmark. Cover… Read more about this item Item Price
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Go Set a Watchman (Rare Limited Misprinted UK Edition)
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Heinemann, 2015. First UK edition-first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Near fine condition.Heinemann,2015. Rare Limited Misprint copy with publisher's printing errors (lines of text missing at the bottom of six pages between 252 and 277). First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Grey hardback(black lettering to the spine, two small nicks on… Read more about this item Item Price
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