A lawyer\'s advice to his children as he defends the real Mockingbird of Harper Lee\'s classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. - Truman Capote.
A touching book; and so funny, so likeable.
Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.
But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man\'s struggle for justice.
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.
A lawyer\'s advice to his children as he defends the real Mockingbird of Harper Lee\'s classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl
