Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062409850)

#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 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 Mockingbird, Go 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.

Author: Harper Lee
ISBN-10: 0062409859
ISBN-13: 9780062409850
Publisher: Harper
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 175479 / Go Set a Watchman


Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 04/06/2015 pg. 26
Entertainment Weekly 05/15/2015 pg. 67
New Yorker (The) 07/27/2015 pg. 66
People Weekly 07/27/2015 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 07/20/2015
Entertainment Weekly 07/24/2015 pg. 61
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2015
New York Times Book Review 08/02/2015 pg. 8
Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 86
New York Review of Books 09/24/2015 pg. 22
Christian Century 10/14/2015 pg. 24