| International Standard Book Number |
9798331708702
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| Personal Name |
Lee, Harper, author.
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| Title Statement |
The land of sweet forever playaway : stories and essays / Harper Lee ; with an introduction by Casey Cep.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
1 audio media player (12 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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| General Note |
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
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| General Note |
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
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| General Note |
Previously released by HarperCollins.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Read by Ellen Burstyn and Hillary Huber.
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| Summary, Etc. |
The publication of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960 created an overnight sensation: the novel won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to sell in the millions. Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters helped to create a landmark in the American canon. Another, darker version of small-town Alabama in the late 1950s emerged in Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee's only other novel, published in 2015 after its rediscovery. Less remembered, until now, however, is Lee the dogged young writer, who crafted stories in hopes of magazine publication; Lee the devoted friend, who cultivated rich connections in Alabama and New York and accompanied her childhood companion Truman Capote to Kansas as he prepared to write the genre-defining In Cold Blood; and Lee the moviegoer, New Yorker, scholar, and citizen, who peppered the pages of McCall's and Vogue with humane, thoughtful, wryly comic, and acutely observed 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 as indispensable for her many fans as it is for students of American literature. From the Alabama schoolyards of Lee's youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of midcentury Manhattan, from Lee's reflections on the responsible teaching of children to a delightful account of Gregory Peck and the To Kill a Mockingbird film set, The Land of Sweet Forever broadens our understanding of Lee's extraordinary talent. For the first time, readers can see Lee's inimitable voice define itself both before and after Go Set a Watchman and To Kill a Mockingbird, touching on 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 Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Southern States Social life and customs Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Alabama Social life and customs Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Race relations Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Playaway (Brand name)
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Cep, Casey N., writer of introduction.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Burstyn, Ellen, 1932- narrator.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Huber, Hillary, narrator.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Harper Audio (Firm)
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.
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