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Go Set a Watchman Low Price CD: A Novel

Autor Harper Lee Reese Witherspoon
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 28 sep 2020
Performed by Reese Witherspoon
#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 
A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—“Scout”—returns 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 Louise’s 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 MockingbirdGo Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past—a journey that can only be guided by one’s 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 precision—a 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780063035997
ISBN-10: 0063035995
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Caedmon

Recenzii

&#8220Go Set a Watchmanis such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades…
&#8220Watchmanis compelling in its timeliness.&#8221
&#8220Go Set a Watchmanprovides valuable insight into the generous, complex mind of one of America’s most important authors.&#8221
&#8220Harper Lee’s second novel sheds more light on our world than its predecessor did.&#8221
&#8220[Go Set a Watchman] contains the familiar pleasures of Ms. Lee’s writing- the easy, drawling rhythms, the flashes of insouciant humor, the love of anecdote.&#8221
&#8220…the voice we came to know so well inTo Kill a Mockingbird- funny, ornery, rulebreaking - is right here inGo Set a Watchman, too, as exasperating and captivating as ever.&#8221
&#8220Don’t let ‘Go Set a Watchman’ change the way you think about Atticus Finch…the 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.&#8221
&#8220A 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.&#8221
&#8220The success ofGo Set a Watchman... lies both in its depiction of Jean Louise reckoning with her father’s beliefs, and in the manner by which it integrates those beliefs into the Atticus we know.&#8221
&#8220Go Set a Watchman’s greatest asset may be its role in sparking frank discussion about America’s woeful track record when it comes to racial equality.&#8221
&#8220Go Set a Watchmancomes to us at exactly the right moment. All important works of art do. They come when we don’t know how much we need them.&#8221
&#8220What makesGo Set a Watchmanmemorable is its sophisticated and even prescient view of the long march for racial justice. Remarkably, a novel written that long ago has a lot to say about our current struggles with race and inequality.&#8221
&#8220[Go Set a Watchman] captures some of the same small-town Southern humor and preoccupation with America’s great struggle: race.&#8221
&#8220Go Set a Watchman’s gorgeous opening is better than we could have expected.&#8221
&#8220Go Set a Watchmanis more complex than Harper Lee’s original classic. A satisfying novel… it is, in most respects, a new work, and a pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event.&#8221
&#8220Lee’s ability with description is evident… with long sentences beautifully rendered and evoking a world long lost to history, but welcoming all the same.&#8221
&#8220A coming-of-age novel in which Scout becomes her own woman…Go Set a Watchman’s voice is beguiling and distinctive, and reminiscent ofMockingbird. (It) can’t be dismissed as literary scraps from Lee’s imagination. It has too much integrity for that.&#8221
&#8220Atticus’ complexity makesGo Set a Watchmanworth reading. WithMockingbird, Harper Lee made us question what we know and who we think we are.Go Set a Watchmancontinues in this noble literary tradition.&#8221
&#8220A deftly written tale… there’s something undeniably comforting and familiar about sinking into Lee’s prose once again.&#8221
&#8220One overarching theme that many critics have zeroed in on is that there is a lot to learn from the novel, as both a writer and a reader.&#8221
&#8220As Faulkner said, the only good stories are the ones about the human heart in conflict with itself. And that’s a pretty good summation ofGo Set a Watchman.&#8221
&#8220Go Set a Watchmanoffers a rich and complex story… To make the novel about pinning the right label on Atticus is to miss the point.&#8221
&#8220[Go Set a Watchmanis a] brilliant book that ruthlessly examines race relations
&#8220In this powerful newly published story about the Finch family, Lee presents a wider window into the white Southern heart, and tells us it is finally time for us all to shatter the false gods of the past and be free.&#8221
&#8220[Go Set a Watchmanis] filled with the evocative language, realistic dialogue and sense of place that partially explains what made Mockingbird so beloved.&#8221

Notă biografică

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, which became a phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller when it was published in July 2015. Ms. Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honors. She died on February 19, 2016.