By no means-Earlier than-Printed Harper Lee Tales Coming This Fall
Huge e-book season simply received larger. A brand new assortment of Harper Lee’s writing is approaching October 21. The Land of Candy Perpetually will current eight beforehand unpublished quick tales from Lee’s pre-Mockingbird profession, together with eight items of nonfiction that have been initially printed between 1961 and 2006. The tales, which Lee tried and didn’t have printed earlier than she hit the massive time, have been among the many papers her executor found after her loss of life in 2016.
Set in each the American South, the place Lee grew up, and New York Metropolis, the place she labored as a younger grownup, the tales discover the themes that will later outline To Kill a Mockingbird: “small town gossip and politics, tender and tense relationships between fathers and daughters, race relations.” Two of the tales reportedly supply perception into how Lee created the character of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Among the many nonfiction choices are a profile of Truman Capote, with whom Lee was shut buddies, a letter to Oprah (sure, actually), and a cornbread recipe. The gathering can even embody scans of a few of the authentic papers with Lee’s working notes.
Having considerably underestimated readers’ pleasure and curiosity in Go Set a Watchman, which offered greater than 1,000,000 copies in its first week when it was printed in 2015 (that was a extremely large quantity within the days earlier than Onyx Storm), I’ll be very interested by how this assortment might be acquired and by whom: are rank-and-file readers nonetheless invested in Lee’s more and more sophisticated legacy, or is that this one for the historians?
