To
Kill a MockingbirdTo
Kill a MockingbirdFrom The Reader's Catalog:
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's
a sin to kill a mockingbird." 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. Through the young eyes
of Scout and Jem Finch,
Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality
of adult attitudes
toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of
a town steeped in
prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet
heroism of one man's struggle
for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
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