Yet ANOTHER Harper Lee Novel!

[ApK]

Originally Posted by frahse

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And when you get the drift of the Family (Ms Lee's sister and her law firm) actions and then the sisters successor at the firm after the sister's death while Ms Lee is in a very fragile health state and for most purposes incapacitated, this whole charade makes perfect sense.

I particularly like it that the woman now peddling the manuscript is denying she stayed at the Auction house and never heard any of the brainstorming and thus the book is a brand new (just in financial time, I would like to add) discovery.

Surely that adds another half million in sales just based on the intrigue.

Meow!

[AnotherCat]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Thanks, but I was wondering if there was anything more specific about what the editor's problem was with the ms., beyond just thinking that the childhood scenes were the most interesting. Did it strike the editor as too harsh? Too political and/or inflammatory for the time? Too angry and negative?...

I have no idea what was in the original editor's mind but having read the book, if it were me I would have thought it was too much trouble for a book whose prose is quite lumpy, and a story that really is day to day humdrum and does not have much strength in the way of developing tensions and their resolution.