| International Standard Book Number |
9780063460515 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063460513 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Lee, Harper, author.
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| Title Statement |
The land of sweet forever : stories and essays / Harper Lee ; edited and with an introduction by Casey Cep.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
xxxi, 187 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered page 189).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Stories. The water tank -- The binoculars -- The pinking shears -- A roomful of kibble -- The viewers and the viewed -- This is show business? -- The cat's meow -- The land of sweet forever -- Essays and miscellaneous pieces. Love -- in other words -- Crackling bread -- Christmas to me -- Gregory Peck -- When children discover America -- Truman Capote -- Romance and high adventure -- A letter from Harper Lee
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| Summary, Etc. |
Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon -- thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-'50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015 after its rediscovery. Less remembered, until now, however, is Harper Lee the dogged young writer, who crafted stories in hopes of magazine publication; Lee the lively New Yorker, Alabamian, and friend to Truman Capote; and the Lee who peppered the pages of McCall's and Vogue with thoughtful essays in the latter part of the twentieth century. The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee's early short fiction and later nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice. Covering territory from the Alabama schoolyards of Lee's youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of midcentury Manhattan, The Land of Sweet Forever invites still-vital conversations about politics, equality, travel, love, fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged and creative life. This collection comes with an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee's appointed biographer, which provides illuminating background for our reading of these stories and connects them both to Lee's life and to her two novels.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Lee, Harper.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors, American 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women authors, American 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
American essays 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Southern States Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Cep, Casey N., editor, writer of introduction.
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