The recently rediscovered book, “Go Set a Watchman,” was completed in the mid-1950s, in the midst of the civil rights movement. It takes place 20 years after “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Though it’s effectively a sequel, Ms. Lee actually wrote “Go Set a Watchman” first.
The 304-page novel takes place in the same fictional town, Maycomb, Ala., and unfolds as Scout Finch, the feisty child heroine of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” returns to visit her father, Atticus.
Ms. Lee said in a statement released by her publisher that her editor at the time was taken with Scout’s childhood flashbacks, and told her to write a different novel from Scout’s perspective.
“I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told,” Ms. Lee, 88, a native of Monroeville, Ala., said in the statement.
I think 6000 copies were in the first edition printing of To Kill a Mockingbird
darn tooting it's exciting!
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Tue 3 Feb, 2015 08:50 pm
@ehBeth,
Me too, I really like that. This is one "new" book I'm going to read.
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Tue 3 Feb, 2015 08:52 pm
@roger,
I read that the publisher wanted her to change it to the child's eye view and that for many years she figured the first effort was lost. (That might have been in the Guardian, no link).
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