Speculation if Harper Lee’s mind sound
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SCOUT is all grown-up and living in New York, and her childhood friend wants to marry her back home in Alabama. Her father, Atticus Finch, is 72 and afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis.
These are the plot details given away in the first chapter of Harper Lee’s hotly anticipated second novel, “Go Set a Watchman,” published by The Wall Street Journal and Guardian newspapers yesterday, and in an audio clip read by Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon.
The new novel, which is already a best-seller at online retail giant Amazon, will be published by HarperCollins on Tuesday.
Lee’s only previous novel, the best-selling masterpiece “To Kill a Mockingbird,” was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for its tale of racial injustice in the Depression-era South.
“Mockingbird” has become standard reading in American classrooms and has been translated into more than 40 languages, as well as adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Gregory Peck.
Lee, 89, lives as a recluse in a nursing home in Monroeville, Alabama, and news that “Watchman” would be published by HarperCollins sparked feverish speculation about whether she was of sound mind.
Lee wrote the manuscript in the mid-1950s, when an editor told the 31-year-old author to recast the book from the childhood perspective of Scout, which eventually turned into “Mockingbird.”
The original manuscript was seemingly re-discovered recently by her lawyer.
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