Scout, Atticus, and Boo - A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird

Zusatztext "And that's really what reading this book is like: attending a big book club meeting with 26 lovers of To Kill a Mockingbird ." Informationen zum Autor Mary McDonagh Murphy is an Emmy Award-winning producer and an independent documentary director whose work has appeared on NBC, PBS, and CBS. This book is based on her interviews in the film Harper Lee: From Mockingbird to Watchman , broadcast on PBS's American Masters in July 2015. Murphy has written for Newsweek , the Chicago Tribune , Daily Beast , and Publishers Weekly . She lives in Scarborough, New York, with Bob, Kate, and James Minzesheimer. Klappentext To Kill a Mockingbird may well be our national novel. ­Published in 1960, it continues to sell nearly a million copies a year, more than any other twentieth-century classic. To mark its fiftieth anniversary, Mary McDonagh Murphy has written a lively appreciation that examines how the novel has left its mark on a broad range of novelists, historians, journalists, and artists. In compelling interviews, Anna Quindlen, Tom Brokaw, Oprah Winfrey, James Patterson, James McBride, and others reflect on when they first read the novel, what it meant to them, and how it has affected their lives and careers. Zusammenfassung To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee’s beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird ! filmmaker Mary Murphy has interviewed prominent figures—including Oprah! Anna Quindlen! and Tom Brokaw—on how the book has impacted their lives. These interviews are compiled in Scout! Atticus! and Boo ! the perfect companion to one of the most important American books of the 20th Century. Scout! Atticus! and Boo will also feature a foreword from acclaimed writer Wally Lamb.

Product details

• Authors: Mary McDonagh Murphy, Mary McDonagh Murphy
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2010
• EAN: 9780061979583
• ISBN: 978-0-06-197958-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, COMMON CORE: LITERATURE, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, LITERATURE: CLASSICS, LITERATURE: LITERARY CRITICISM, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Speeches, FICTION: Erotica / Collections & Anthologies