|
S'està carregant… Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (2015 original; edició 2016)de Harper Lee (Autor)
Detalls de l'obraVés i aposta un sentinella de Harper Lee (2015)
  
Books Read in 2015 (84) Top Five Books of 2015 (114) Female Author (172) » 20 més Books Read in 2016 (668) Historical Fiction (223) Overdue Podcast (83) Five star books (456) Southern Fiction (97) Unread books (367) New Arrivals (3) SHOULD Read Books! (184) Nov. 2015 new books (22) le donne raccontano (111)
Her uncle says it best - the novel needs a story. I think this book was necessary to be written before To Kill a Mockingbird. It has some of its elements, but it does lack plot and the ending is rather more of a lecture than I needed, but it does make important points, especially for this part of the world. (  ) WiebkeK | Jan 21, 2021 |  The plot is rather slow and plodding, I couldn't see where the book is heading till the last third of the book. The main storyline is Scout learning that her father is not as good as she thinks and that at times, he is forced to do things he doesn't want to. Fair but weird I find. ( ) siok | Jan 17, 2021 | Hm... I'm a bit on the fence about this one. It's definitely enjoyable to read [a:Harper Lee|1825|Harper Lee|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1188820730p2/1825.jpg] again, and the characters and Maycomb still feel as real as ever. However, it is pretty clear, especially towards the end, that this is not a finished manuscript, but rather a collection of thoughts and notes on a story to be. This has been discussed at length on different fora, so no need to elaborate more on that here, but it is indeed no sequel to [b:To Kill a Mockingbird|6193719|To Kill a Mockingbird|Harper Lee|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1456325636s/6193719.jpg|3275794], neither in story, nor in quality. I don't recommend it to anyone but real Lee fans. ( ) bbbart | Dec 27, 2020 | wederom een prachtig geschreven boek. Hoewel het gaat over de tijd na de afschaffing van de slavernij en de manier waarop het zuiden van Amerika met de negers omgaan, gaat het daar alleen indirect over. Jean Louie Finch, de hoofdpersoon, komt terug in haar geboortedorp en ziet daar veranderingen, die haar tegen de borst stuiten en waar ze mee om moet zien te gaan. Waar het om gaat is dat ze een eigen mening en geweten leert ontwikkelen, en niet aan blijft haken aan die van haar vader. (  ) mslourens | Dec 27, 2020 | I read a bit of the book and decided to listen to it instead. Reese Witherspoon's sweet southern voice provided much needed enjoyment to finish this book. The story is what it is and Harper Lee told her story. I really don't have a strong opinion towards Atticus. Perhaps I'm not a true fan. ( ) xKayx | Dec 14, 2020 |
 And so beneath Atticus’s style of enlightenment is a kind of bigotry that could not recognize itself as such at the time. The historical and human fallacies of the Agrarian ideology hardly need to be rehearsed now, but it should be said that these views were not regarded as ridiculous by intellectuals at the time. Indeed, Jean Louise/Lee herself, though passionately opposed to what her uncle and her father are saying, nevertheless accepts the general terms of the debate as the right ones. Go Set a Watchman is a troubling confusion of a novel, politically and artistically, beginning with its fishy origin story. .. I ached for this adult Scout: The civil rights movement may be gathering force, but the second women's movement hasn't happened yet. I wanted to transport Scout to our own time — take her to a performance of Fun Home on Broadway — to know that, if she could only hang on, the possibilities for nonconforming tomboys will open up. Lee herself, writing in the 1950s, lacks the language and social imagination to fully develop this potentially powerful theme.  Despite the boldness and bravery of its politics, Go Set a Watchman is a very rough diamond in literary terms … it is a book of enormous literary interest, and questionable literary merit.  It is, in most respects, a new work, and a pleasure, revelation and genuine literary event, akin to the discovery of extra sections from T S Eliot’s The Waste Land or a missing act from Hamlet hinting that the prince may have killed his father. Watchman is both a painful complication of Harper Lee’s beloved book and a confirmation that a novel read widely by schoolchildren is far more bitter than sweet. Watchman is alienating from the very start. Pertany a aquestes sèriesPertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsContingut aÉs una seqüela de (sense pertànyer a cap sèrie)
"Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home 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 a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past -- a journey that can be guided only by one's conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of 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." -- Book jacket. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
 Google Books — S'està carregant…Cobertes popularsValoracióMitjana: (3.34)
Ets tu?Fes-te Autor del LibraryThing. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12
2
Harper Lee's new release- Will you read it?
9