HarperCollins Releases Cover for New Harper Lee Novel.
HarperCollins released the cover for Harper Lees highly anticipated new novel, Go Set a Watchman, on Wednesday, and hinted at new details about the book. The cover a classic and melancholy image of a dark tree with sparse yellow leaves against a dusky blue sky, with a train approaching from the distance is emblematic of the opening of the book, which begins with a grown-up Scouts train ride from New York to her childhood home of Maycomb, Ala. . .
The narrative of Go Set a Watchman unfolds in the 1950s, 20 years after To Kill a Mockingbird, as Scout travels to Maycomb to visit her aging father Atticus Finch. Though the characters and setting will be familiar to fans of To Kill a Mockingbird, there is little overlap between the two novels otherwise, Ms. Lees publisher and literary agent say.
The cover, designed by Jarrod Taylor in the Harper Art Department at HarperCollins, reflects Scouts journey home, Michael Morrison, the president and publisher of HarperCollins, said in a statement.
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