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tacocat  ·  3446 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Early review of Go Set a Watchman. It's not pretty

The story I heard is she wrote this first then someone said the flashbacks were better than the main story and she scrapped it, writing To Kill a Mockingbird. Then her literary agent or attorney found this manuscript and got an invalid to sign off on the publication after refusing to do so for sixty years.

There's also the story that Truman Capote wrote To Kill a Mockingbird as a gift to her as they were childhood friends. I'm only mentioning that because I think it's interesting. "It really makes you think," isn't an argument but I'm sure this book will create all sorts of theories and counter theories to that literary conspiracy.





camarillobrillo  ·  3446 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You sound way more knowledgable on the subject than me. Thanks for sharing, and setting me straight.

tacocat  ·  3446 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.