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02725aam a2200397 a 4500 001 5638132A5B6F11E582BE1AB3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230808011918 008 150426s2105 000 1 eng u 020 $a 0062409859 020 $a 9780062409850 (hardcover)\0062409859 (hardcover) 040 $a NBO $d SILO 100 1 $a Lee, Harper, 245 10 $a Go set a watchman : $b a novel $c Harper Lee. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York $b Harper Collines $c 2105. 300 $a 278 pages ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Deckle edge. 500 $a This book is 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. - Publisher. 520 $a A wonderful new novel from one of America's bestselling authors. Exploring the tensions between a local culture and a changing national political agenda; family arguments and love: an instant classic. 520 $a Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s. 650 $a Alabama $x Fiction. 650 $a Fathers and daughters $x Fiction. 650 $a Fiction ordered June 2015. 650 $a Girls $x Fiction. 650 $a Homecoming $x Fiction. 650 $a Nineteen fifties $x Fiction. 650 $a Race relations $x Fiction. 650 $a Social change $x Fiction. 650 $a Southern States $x Fiction. 941 $a 4 952 $l HUAX887 $d 20181127143638.0 952 $l LIPB815 $d 20180514102239.0 952 $l OEPC877 $d 20160727160616.0 952 $l XYPC787 $d 20151014133459.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5638132A5B6F11E582BE1AB3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search