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Harper Lee (1926–2016)

Autor(a) de To Kill a Mockingbird

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About the Author

Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926. She studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, and spent a year as an exchange student in Oxford University, Wellington Square. She moved to New York where she worked as an airlines reservations clerk while mostrar mais pursuing a literary career. In 1959, she accompanied Truman Capote to Holcombe, Kansas, as a research assistant for Capote's novel In Cold Blood. Her first book, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. The book was adapted as a feature film in 1962 and a London stage play in 1987. Her second book, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015. She died on February 19, 2016 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) — Autor — 78,039 exemplares
Go Set a Watchman (2015) 9,777 exemplares
To Kill a Mockingbird [1962 film] (1962) — Autor; Autor — 659 exemplares
To Kill a Mockingbird [play] (1970) 207 exemplares
Romance and high adventure (1985) 2 exemplares
Att döda en härmtrast (2021) 2 exemplares
සකිසඳ (2019) 1 exemplar
Menj, állíts ort! (2015) 1 exemplar
1974 1 exemplar

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Discussions

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE em 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (Abril 2017)
Harper Lee em Legacy Libraries (Fevereiro 2016)
Harper Lee's new release- Will you read it? em Girlybooks (Fevereiro 2016)
Go Set a Watchman release day em Book talk (Julho 2015)
Recommendations on Go Set a Watchman? em Talk about LibraryThing (Julho 2015)
Harper Lee publishing 2nd novel em Book talk (Fevereiro 2015)
To Kill a Mockingbird Group Read em 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (Abril 2013)

Críticas

Representation: Black and biracial (half Black and half white) characters
Trigger warnings: Assault mentioned, racism, sexism, racist and sexist slurs, gun and knife violence, animal death
Score: Two points out of ten.
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I didn't enjoy To Kill a Mockingbird at any point in the book. I saw this one circling my recommendations, making me want to read it. When I discovered my library had this, I immediately wanted to pick it up. Soon enough, it was time to read it, and I initially thought it would be enjoyable, but it wasn't.

Spoilers ahead. I've warned you.

It starts with the first people I see, Scout and Jem Finch, recounting their lives in a small town named Maycomb. Nothing much happens in the opening pages (actually the first 150 pages,) until a court case occurs involving a Black person being accused of assaulting a white person. To say To Kill a Mockingbird was disappointing only scratches the surface of how abhorrent it is. To Kill a Mockingbird portrays a white saviour narrative as the white lawyer, Atticus Finch, swoops in and solves racism for the Black character, Tom. That has to be one of the most unrealistic rendering of racism I've seen.

To Kill a Mockingbird ignores the fact that Black people and other minorities stood up for themselves to stop injustice and instead sends a message that only white people can stop racism for them. I would've liked the characters if they didn't play the white saviour. All I see is racism from the white perspective, and never hear from any of the Black characters. The last 100 pages weren't much better as all the characters in this fictional composition reflect on what happened, but not before one of them delivers a speech on colourblindness and how race doesn't matter and they are all only people.

To summarise, this piece of fiction from the author initially seemed promising, but when I closed its final page, I felt disgusted. You can read other books concerning discrimination like The Hate U Give instead of this.
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Law_Books600 | 1,429 outras críticas | Mar 18, 2024 |
I've seen the movie several times, but never read the book. While the movie follows the book closely, I think reading the book added a layer of charm and feeling hard to convey in a movie.

The writing is amazing, you are effortlessly pulled into the lives of the characters and feel transported to a time of hot steamy summers in a small southern town. I will be reading this again.
 
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RuthInman123 | 1,429 outras críticas | Mar 12, 2024 |
I love this book! I started reading it again on the anniversary date of its publication. What a great book!
 
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Cathie_Dyer | 1,429 outras críticas | Feb 29, 2024 |
Many seem to have read this when quite young - probably as a school text. I missed it back then but although I'm old now I felt at ease with this book's warm southern American tone - largely developed through the voice of Scout the narrator and assisted by occasional passages of gentle humour. A deliberate and cleverly constructed contrast to the intractable depth of prejudice and injustice in the USA (just as bad in Australia). The book is a beautifully sustained series of interconnected life-stories that peaked for me during the meeting of Aunt Alexandra's missionary circle where, 'the ladies were cool in fragile pastel prints: most of them heavily powdered but unrouged;...'


'His food doesn't stick going down does it?'
Miss Maudie said it. Two tight lines had appeared at he corners of her mouth. She had been sitting silently beside me, her coffee cup balanced on one knee...
'Maudie,, I'm sure I don't know what you mean,' said Mrs Merriweather.
'I'm sure you do,' said Miss Maudie shortly.
She said no more. When Miss Maudie was angry her brevity was icy.
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simonpockley | 1,429 outras críticas | Feb 25, 2024 |

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Obras
42
Also by
11
Membros
89,104
Popularidade
#115
Avaliação
½ 4.3
Críticas
1,879
ISBN
463
Línguas
34
Marcado como favorito
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