The great classic of American literature, beloved by adults and children alike. Celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2010.
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird, originally published in 1960; and Go Set a Watchman, published in July 2015. Ms Lee received the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died in 2016.
No one ever forgets this book
*Independent*
Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the
liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. A
touching book; and so funny, so likeable
There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint
note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in
the now familiar Southern tradition
*Sunday Times*
It would be difficult to argue that Harper Lee's classic isn't one
of the most - if not the most - beloved of American novels
*New Yorker*
The enduring appeal of Mockingbird lies not only int he plot or
characters; the book is a mirror, a source of endless and
revelatory conversation about who we are and have been as a
country
*Washington Post*
The names Scout and Atticus - and, perhaps above all, the name
Harper - reflect a respect not just for the arc of history, but for
the hope that it does indeed bend toward justice
*Atlantic*
A first novel of such rare excellence
*Chicago Tribune*
Novels like To Kill a Mockingbird enlarge the heart and inspire the
mind. They have the power uplift readers and enrich them - no
matter where those readers live or how they worship or the color of
their skin
*Boston Globe*
The rare classic that speaks to all ages about the less triumphant
aspects of American history
*Time*
A seminal American story, a touchstone of radical tolerance .. The
book is a marvel, brilliantly structured, wonderfully told in the
voice of Scout Finch, a stand-in for its tomboyish author as a
child ... It's a book determined to make young readers feel like
grownups ... and grownups feel like children
*USA Today*
Lee's beloved American classics makes its belated debut on audio (after briefly being available in the 1990s for the blind and libraries through Books on Tape) with the kind of classy packaging that may spoil listeners for all other audiobooks. The two CD slipcases housing the 11 discs not only feature art mirroring Mary Schuck's cover design but also offers helpful track listings for each disk. Many viewers of the 1962 movie adaptation believe that Lee was the film's narrator, but it was actually an unbilled Kim Stanley who read a mere six passages and left an indelible impression. Competing with Stanley's memory, Spacek forges her own path to a victorious reading. Spacek reads with a slight Southern lilt and quiet authority. Told entirely from the perspective of young Scout Finch, there's no need for Spacek to create individual voices for various characters but she still invests them all with emotion. Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel, which quietly stands as one of the most powerful statements of the Civil Rights movement, has been superbly brought to audio. Available as a Perennial paperback. (Aug.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
'No one ever forgets this book' * Independent *
'Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the
liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. A
touching book; and so funny, so likeable' - Truman
Capote
'Her book is lifted...into the rare company of those that linger in
the mind long after dramas, sagas and sophisticated frolics have
coalesced into a blur of half-forgotten fiction' * Bookman *
'There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint
note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in
the now familiar Southern tradition' * Sunday Times *
Harper Lee announced she would be releasing a sequel to To Kill
a Mockingbird this summer - 55 years after her debut. Go Set
a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than
half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and
features Scout as an adult * Guardian *
Spacek, with her lilting Southern accent, perfectly captures the voice of Scout, the young girl whose life is thrown into turmoil when her father, the upright and highly ethical lawyer Atticus Finch, takes on the defense of a black man accused of raping a white woman. Their sleepy Alabama town may never be the same and Spacek's exceptional pacing propels this Pulitzer Prize-winner-a staple of many high school reading lists-to its inexorable conclusion. The 1962 film, starring Gregory Peck (who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Atticus Finch), was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1995. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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