Harper Lee: The Land of Sweet Forever, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Land of Sweet Forever
- Stories and Essays
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- Verlag:
- HarperCollins, 10/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780063460539
- Artikelnummer:
- 12659896
- Umfang:
- 224 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 20.10.2026
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Weitere Ausgaben von The Land of Sweet Forever |
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|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 13,83* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 66,47* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 25,13* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 21,94* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 22,74* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 32,40* |
Klappentext
With an Introduction by Casey Cep
"A welcome hybrid compendium. . . . reinforces Lee's indelible voice, contributing a rewarding addition and resource to the slim canon of her literary legacy."--Los Angeles Times
From one of America's most beloved authors, a collection of newly discovered short stories, essays, and magazine pieces offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind of Harper Lee.
In 1960, on the eve of the Civil Rights Movement, when Jim Crow remained law across the American South, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was published to great sensation. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, and became a landmark in the American literary canon, going on to sell forty million copies. It was followed by Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee's only other novel--a darker vision of 1950s small-town Alabama, published in 2015 after its rediscovery.
Before she was a literary legend, Harper Lee was a dogged young writer who accompanied her childhood friend Truman Capote to Kansas as he prepared to write In Cold Blood ; a moviegoer; a New York City transplant; and a scholar, who wrote humane, thoughtful, wryly comic, and acutely observed essays that appeared in top women's magazines, including McCall's and Vogue.
The Land of Sweet Forever combines the short fiction written early in her career with her later nonfiction. These stories and pieces take us from the Alabama schoolyards of Lee's youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of mid-century Manhattan; they offer Lee's reflections on a wide range of themes, from the responsible teaching of children to a delightful account of star Gregory Peck and the film set of To Kill a Mockingbird.
The book includes an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee's appointed biographer, which provides illuminating background to these pieces and connects them to Lee's life and her novels, broadening our un derstanding of her extraordinary talent. Readers can trace the development of Lee's inimitable voice as it explores politics, equality, travel, love, fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged and creative life.
Insightful and illuminating, The Land of Sweet Foreveris an indispensable work for Harper Lee's many devoted fans, new readers discovering her work, and students of American literature.
Biografie
Harper Lee wurde 1926 in Monroeville/Alabama geboren. Sie studierte ab 1945 Jura an der Universität in Alabama, ging aber vor dem Abschluß nach New York und arbeitete bei einer internationalen Luftverkehrsgesellschaft. Für den vorliegenden Roman erhielt sie 1961 als erste Frau seit 1942 den Pulitzerpreis und lebt heute zurückgezogen in New York.