An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.
Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right.
Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who served on the state legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote.
After graduating from high school in Monroeville, Lee enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944-45), and then pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama (1945-50), pledging the Chi Omega sorority. While there, she wrote for several student publications and spent a year as editor of the campus humor magazine, "Ramma-Jamma". Though she did not complete the law degree, she studied for a summer in Oxford, England, before moving to New York in 1950, where she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC.
Lee continued as a reservation clerk until the late 50s, when she devoted herself to writing. She lived a frugal life, traveling between her cold-water-only apartment in New York to her family home in Alabama to care for her father.
Having written several long stories, Harper Lee located an agent in November 1956. The following month at the East 50th townhouse of her friends Michael Brown and Joy Williams Brown, she received a gift of a year's wages with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas."
Within a year, she had a first draft. Working with J. B. Lippincott & Co. editor Tay Hohoff, she completed To Kill a Mockingbird in the summer of 1959. Published July 11, 1960, the novel was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by the Library Journal.
读完《杀死一只知更鸟》,我紧接着找来《守望之心》,直到凌晨三点把整本读完才熄灯躺下(期间还见证了欧洲最后一次夏令时调整,所以多出了一个小时),因为不看到斯库特和父亲对峙和摊牌实在放不下。BTW,突如其来的杰姆的死讯实在让人心痛... 感觉第二本更让我思考自己和父亲...
评分读To Kill a Mockingbird已经是很晚的事,阅读过程中传出了Harper Lee的新书Go Set a Watchman将于7月出版的消息。读完前者,几乎是数着日子等后者出版。恰巧那几个月几乎累吐了血,等到拿起新书,已经是9月份的事了。 根据出版介绍,Harper Lee先写了Watchman,编辑却被Scout...
评分 评分我的观点可能有点不同。阿迪克斯公平善良风度幽默依旧,他的立场是“在黑人文化各方面落后的铁定事实下,赐予他们不需要努力不需要能力就白得的和白人平等的权利,让不懂政治的人聚团投票成为政治舞台的主角,这是不负责任的公正”。小说说到他跌落神坛,实则只是跌落了斯库特...
评分这本书读起来有一种莫名的熟悉感,仿佛置身于一个既熟悉又疏离的世界。开篇就抓住了我的注意力,那种扑面而来的生活气息,让人一下子就沉浸其中,感觉自己就是故事里的一员。人物的刻画非常细腻,每一个角色都仿佛活生生地站在我面前,他们的喜怒哀乐、他们的挣扎与抉择,都深深地触动着我。我特别喜欢作者对细节的描绘,那些看似微不足道的瞬间,却勾勒出了人物内心深处的情感波澜。读着读着,我常常会陷入沉思,思考自己在这个世界上所扮演的角色,以及那些我曾经坚持过的信念是否还有存在的价值。作者的笔触非常老练,能够不动声色地将深刻的主题融入到日常的叙事中,不露痕迹地引发读者的思考。整本书给我一种沉甸甸的感觉,像是品味一杯陈年的威士忌,初尝微苦,回味却悠长而醇厚。它不只是一个故事,更像是一面镜子,映照出我们内心的许多角落,也让我们重新审视那些关于成长、关于选择、关于爱与责任的永恒命题。这本书让我久久不能平静,它在我的脑海中留下了深刻的印记,成为了我近期阅读体验中非常难忘的一笔。
评分这部作品以一种近乎电影般的镜头语言,缓缓展开一个充满张力的故事。开篇的氛围营造就做得极其到位,那种淡淡的忧伤和挥之不去的不安,如同潮水般将我包裹。我被深深吸引的,是作者对于环境和人物关系的精妙描绘。那些陈旧的房屋、斑驳的墙壁、以及人物之间微妙的眼神交流,都充满了故事感。作者似乎有一种魔力,能够将那些无声的情感,那些隐藏在对话之下的潜台词,都清晰地呈现在读者面前。我常常会为角色的命运而揪心,为他们的选择而困惑,也为他们的痛苦而感同身受。这本书不是那种快节奏的、情节跌宕起伏的故事,它更像是一首缓慢流淌的乐章,需要你静下心来,去体会其中的每一个音符,去感受那种由内而外的力量。每一次翻页,都像是揭开一层新的谜底,但又似乎是陷入更深的迷雾。这种引人入胜的叙事方式,让我欲罢不能,迫切地想知道接下来会发生什么,又害怕最终的答案。它挑战了我的固有认知,也让我对人性的复杂有了更深刻的理解。
评分刚拿到这本书的时候,我并没有抱太大的期待,毕竟这类题材的作品并非我平时的主攻方向。然而,读了几页之后,我便被作者的叙事功力所折服。开篇的场景设置非常具有代入感,仿佛我本人就置身于那个特定的时空之中,与故事中的人物一起呼吸、一起感受。这本书最让我惊艳的是它对于人物内心世界的探索,作者毫不避讳地揭示了角色的矛盾、挣扎以及那些不为人知的阴暗面。这种真实感,让我觉得每一个角色都无比鲜活,他们不是简单的符号,而是有血有肉、有情感、有思想的个体。在阅读过程中,我常常会问自己,如果是我,我会怎么做?这种强烈的代入感,是许多作品难以达到的。作者的文字带着一种独特的质感,既有力量,又不失细腻。它不像是在讲故事,更像是在进行一场深刻的灵魂对话。这本书带给我的不仅仅是阅读的乐趣,更是一种精神上的洗礼,让我对生活、对人性有了更加多元的理解。我强烈推荐给那些喜欢深度思考、愿意探索内心世界的读者。
评分这是一部充满力量的作品,它以一种极为沉静的方式,揭示了许多隐藏在社会表象之下的复杂现实。开篇就奠定了故事的基调,那种淡淡的忧伤和隐约的紧张感,在字里行间弥漫开来。我最欣赏的是作者对于人物内心矛盾的处理,每一个角色都展现出了多面性,他们的善良与私心,他们的坚持与动摇,都刻画得入木三分。这本书让我深刻地体会到了,在历史的洪流中,个体所面临的困境与选择。作者的叙事视角非常独特,它没有直接给出答案,而是让读者自己去感受、去思考。每一次阅读,都像是在剥洋葱,一层一层地揭开人物内心的秘密,也一层一层地触碰到那些关于公平、关于正义、关于人性善恶的深刻议题。这本书带来的冲击力,是那种无声却又极具穿透力的。它不是那种让你大呼过瘾的爽文,而是一部需要你静下心来,去细细品味、去慢慢消化的作品。它在我的脑海中留下了许多挥之不去的画面和思考,让我对许多事物都有了新的认识。
评分这本书给我的感觉就像是一场漫长的、却又充实无比的旅程。从一开始,我就被它所营造的氛围所吸引,那种混合着怀旧与不安的情绪,贯穿始终。作者在人物的塑造上可谓是功力深厚,每一个角色都栩栩如生,他们的言谈举止、他们的眼神交流,都充满了信息量。我尤其欣赏作者对于过去与现在、记忆与现实之间联系的描绘。那些曾经的往事,是如何潜移默化地影响着当下的生活,又是如何塑造了人们的性格和选择,作者用一种极其自然的方式展现出来。这本书没有惊心动魄的情节,但它却拥有着一种强大的、能够渗透到骨子里的力量。它让我思考了许多关于身份认同、关于家庭羁绊、关于社会变迁的议题。读完之后,我感到一种难以言喻的震撼,仿佛经历了一场心灵的洗礼。作者的文字功底非常扎实,能够用平实而又深刻的语言,触及到人性的最深处。这本书会让你在阅读的同时,不断地与自己的内心对话,是一种非常值得回味的体验。
评分真的不是很好看,最后的争论很精彩。
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