{"product_id":"9780062409850","title":"Go Set a Watchman : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Harper Lee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e#1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades…\u003cbr\u003e   — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e (Opinion Pages)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, \u003cem\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-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 \u003cem\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the mid-1950s, \u003cem\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/em\u003e, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an American classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades…\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWatchman\u003c\/em\u003e is compelling in its timeliness.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e provides valuable insight into the generous, complex mind of one of America’s most important authors.”\u003cbr\u003e“Don’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. That this doesn’t emerge in \u003cem\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/em\u003e, then, may be one of that book’s failings, a tendency to sugarcoat, to oversimplify. The Atticus in\u003cem\u003e Go Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e, in other words, is likely closer to the way such a man would actually have been.”\u003cbr\u003e“Harper Lee’s second novel sheds more light on our world than its predecessor did.”\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e] contains the familiar pleasures of Ms. Lee’s writing- the easy, drawling rhythms, the flashes of insouciant humor, the love of anecdote.”\u003cbr\u003e“…the voice we came to know so well in \u003cem\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/em\u003e - funny, ornery, rulebreaking - is right here in \u003cem\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e, too, as exasperating and captivating as ever.”\u003cbr\u003e“A 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.”\u003cbr\u003e“The success of \u003cem\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e... 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.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGo Set a Watchman\u003c\/em\u003e’s greatest asset may be its role in sparking frank discussion about America’s woeful track record when it comes to racial equality.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062409850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":41111717085390,"sku":"9780062409850","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062409850.jpg?v=1649737518","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062409850","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}