The Latest Buzz about Go Set a Watchman
In the uncertainty of today's publishing industry, more news is always good news in that it keeps an author's name and book in the forefront. So as we await the release of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman, the literary world is abuzz with news that the book may have been "rediscovered" as early as 2011.
Go Set a Watchman is a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in 1960 and remains one of the most widely-read and influential books of all times. The new book revisits the characters twenty years later. The manuscript in fact was written before To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee's publisher recommended at the time that Watchman be re-written from the young girl's point of view and set in her childhood.
Go Set a Watchman is due for release on July 14, 2015. Two million copies of the book will be printed.
For the New York Times article relating to discrepancies in the date the manuscript was located, please see http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/boo....
Go Set a Watchman is a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in 1960 and remains one of the most widely-read and influential books of all times. The new book revisits the characters twenty years later. The manuscript in fact was written before To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee's publisher recommended at the time that Watchman be re-written from the young girl's point of view and set in her childhood.
Go Set a Watchman is due for release on July 14, 2015. Two million copies of the book will be printed.
For the New York Times article relating to discrepancies in the date the manuscript was located, please see http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/boo....
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