Book Review: Sequel Intriguing, But No ‘mockingbird’

By Ben Steelman StarNews Media, Winchester Star: Books
Tue, 07/28/2015 - 9:33am

Some published novels should never see the light of day. Ernest Hemingway’s reputation has suffered from the posthumous release of such wretched drafts as “True at First Light.” Papa Hemingway didn’t release them in his lifetime, and we can tell there was a good reason.This does not apply, however, to Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” the novel that supposedly morphed into the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winner “To Kill a Mockingbird.

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