Go Set a Watchman
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Harper Lee, “Go Set A Watchman,” (New York: Harper Collins, 2015), 288 pp., S27.99.
Why throw away the Christmas turkey after it’s been eaten? It can still be used. Take the carcass, simmer with water, and the bones make a good stock for soup. Take the carcass of a popular novel—its discarded rough draft—place it between hard covers, and these bones can make for a best seller. The difference is that one is honest and thrifty while the other is dishonest and shifty.
HarperCollins is a company that knows what to do with leftovers. Given the popularity of Harper Lee’s Pu litzer-Prize winning novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the publication of “Go Set a Watchman” was inevitable.
“Mockingbird” has sold millions of copies and has never been out of print since its publication in 1960. The film version released in 1962 won three Academy Awards, brought many more readers to the book, and helped lift the story of Jean Louise Finch (“Scout”) to a select status of beloved novels. Every graduate of an American high school knows the stories of Huck, Hold en, and Scout. Their misadventures make up no small part of the national-curriculum-by-consensus of Ameri can education.
But “Go Set a Watchman” is Harper Lee’s failed, first at tempt at what eventually came to be “To Kill a Mocking bird”—her only authentic novel. Promoted as a sequel or as a companion piece that offers richer insight into “Mockingbird,” the new volume found an enthusiastic audience.
Immediately upon publication in 2015, “Go Set a It will take 118 years to close the wage gap be tween women and men if present trends in pay in equity persist, the World Economic Forum predicts.
The global pay gap between the sexes narrowed by a mere 3 per cent over the past decade, visibly stall ing after 2009-10, according to the forum’s annual Global Gender Gap report.
The slow progress means women are only now earning what men earned nearly a decade ago:
$11,000 on average, while men’s average pay has
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SOCIALIST ACTION
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Gender wage parity — More than a century away