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Book Review: Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Gives Atticus Finch a Dark Side
We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel’s moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity who used his gifts as a lawyer to defend a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in a small Alabama town filled with prejudice and hatred in the 1930s.
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I've been looking for a new book and I think that i've just found it!
I honestly thought this book was going to be a sequel. Now that I've learnt it's essentially an early version of Mockingbird, it actually makes me feel a bit more uneasy. Not because of the characterisation, but because Harper Lee apparently wasn't intending for this book to be published originally, but now apparently she's changed her mind...
Yea, I was surprised about that too. I think NYT got it right when the reviewer was saying that this may be more interesting for students of literature who are interested in the process that lead to Mockingbird. This seems to be more "associated material" than a true sequel or even companion novel.