Va et poste une sentinelle

Resumen del libro

Jean Louise Finch, dite « Scout , linoubliable héroïne de Ne tirez pas sur loiseau moqueur, est de retour dans sa petite ville natale de lAlabama, Maycomb, pour rendre visite à son père Atticus. Vingt ans ont passé. Nous sommes au milieu des années 1950, à laube de la déségrégation, et la nation se déchire autour des questions raciales. Confrontée à la société qui la façonnée mais dont elle sest éloignée en partant sétablir à New York, Jean Louise va découvrir ses proches sous un jour inédit et voir vaciller toutes les fondations de son existence, politiques, sociales et familiales.

Va et poste une sentinelle est le deuxième roman de Harper Lee, mais fut écrit avant le mythique Ne tirez pas sur loiseau moqueur, qui reçut le Prix Pulitzer en 1961.
Dernier volet de ce qui devait être au départ une trilogie romanesque dont lOiseau moqueur aurait été le premier tome, ce roman inédit marque le retour, après soixante-cinq ans de silence, de lun des plus grands auteurs américains du siècle.

Biografía del autor

Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Lee published only two books, yet she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature. She also received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.<br><br>The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936 when she was 10. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. It was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. She also wrote the novel Go Set a Watchman in the mid-1950s and published it in July 2015 as a sequel to Mockingbird, but it was later confirmed to be merely her first draft of Mockingbird.