Mockingbird 2: what the newspaper critics think of Go Set a Watchman

A quartet of national press reviewers on Harper Lee’s ‘new’ novel...Atticus Finch a racist? What has Harper Lee done by allowing the publication of her original novel, the one from which To Kill a Mockingbird emerged? Anyway, did she really give her permission?Given the continuing - and maybe never-to-be-resolved - mystery surrounding the circumstances of Go Set a Watchman being published, it’s no wonder that it stoked considerable controversy before anyone even got to read it.“Go Set a Watchman is barely a novel at all. It contains several passages of undigested shouting, of the kind a student might write in a political pamphlet. The climactic scene, in particular, involves a detailed discussion of states’ rights that will be virtually unintelligible to non-American readers. And it’s bookended, rather half-heartedly, with sentimental scenes designed to obscure this and sell it instead as a love story”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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