it's not leather stocking tails, it's not like reading something by washington irving but mite it be dated? >> well, you know when cop ody died it was said "good career move. kapodi was at the end of his life. he was not writing well. we are getting this book from a woman who is sassy, 28 years old, who was working at eastern airlines as a reservationist at night and during the day and writing on the weekend as a novelist. she's putting blood sweat and tears into the group. we may find the compassion was put into the book in 1955, during the eisenhower administration. it may be a time capsule, a parallel. alexander dumoz, the last cavalier came out 125 years after the author's death, and shots - shot to the top of the best seller list in france. if we give it a bit of room and say this was written a long time ago by a young earnest author it may satisfy - it may creek a little bit, because it doesn't have the practice hand of an editor on it yet. >> audrey fish we may be being altogether too pessimistic here a harper lee look at the 50s, as a look at the 30s may be a use of teaching