Go Set a Watchman - Hardcover

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. --"Los Angeles Times""

["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. --"Wall Street Journal""

"Watchman" is compelling in its timeliness. --"Washington Post""

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. --"Washington Post""

The success of "Go 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. --"Time""

"Go 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. --"San Francisco Chronicle""

"Go Set a Watchman" comes 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. --"Chicago Tribune""

the voice we came to know so well in "To Kill a Mockingbird" - funny, ornery, rulebreaking - is right here in "Go Set a Watchman," too, as exasperating and captivating as ever. --"Chicago Tribune""

What makes "Go Set a Watchman" memorable 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. --"Chicago Tribune""

["Go Set a Watchman"] captures some of the same small-town Southern humor and preoccupation with America s great struggle: race. --"Columbus Dispatch""

A new novel from the author of To Kill a Mockingbird