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Monday, February 09, 2015

The Harper Lee controversy

  The alleged cover for 'Go Set a Watchman' has appeared on publishing websites and Amazon.com.
HARPERThe alleged cover for 'Go Set a Watchman' has appeared on publishing websites and Amazon.com.http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/harper-lee-set-watchman-cover-allegedly-surfaces-article-1.2107037




Dear Charlie,
I imagine, you know "To Kill a Mockingbird." because you've either read the book by Harper Lee or seen its film adaptation by Robert Mulligan. Or both because this book is a bestseller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Academy Award winning movie is a classic.

Many people love it and remember its words and message:







This book was the only one  by Harper Lee and everyone believed that it would remain so until a few days ago.
A sudden bolt from the blue!  A sequel to the book is to be published next summer (on Bastille day) and  this causes much ado.

.http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/feb/06/to-kill-mockingbird-harper-lee-overrated-sequel-go-set-watchman
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/03/harper-lee-new-novel-to-kill-a-mockingbird
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/03/go-set-a-watchman-sequels-harper-lee-to-kill-a-mockingbird
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/03/harper-lee-new-novel-go-set-a-watchman-is-a-bolt-from-the-blue
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/06/harper-lee-home-town-monroeville-surprised-bemused-sceptical
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/08/harper-lee-lawyer-statement-hurt-by-book-controversy
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/04/slow-down-harper-lee-donna-tartt-nile-rodgers-
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/feb/04/after-the-mockingbird-sequel-will-any-other-lost-classics-be-uncovered
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/04/harper-lee-exploited-atticus-finch-go-set-a-watchman
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/opinion/dont-do-it-harper-lee.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/books/harper-lee-says-shes-excited-for-new-novel.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/28/books/quiet-please-chicago-is-reading-the-same-book-at-the-same-time.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/go-set-a-watchman-is-the-prospect-of-another-book-from-harper-lee-a-potshot-at-the-mockingbird-or-a-literary-coup-10031359.html

Lots of food for thoughts in these articles, isn't it?

Will you read the sequel or not? I don't know yet myself but I'm sure to pick up To Kill a Mockingbird and read it again soon.
Best,
Mrs. C.