Rhett Butler's People: The Authorized Novel based on Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
Nov 2007 · St. Martin's Press
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Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind. Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler's People marks a major and historic cultural event.
Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett's eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhett's unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett's best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O'Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War.
Of course there is Scarlett. Katie Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett's: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she'll ever know...
Brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, Rhett Butler's People fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by Gone With The Wind.
Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett's eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhett's unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett's best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O'Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War.
Of course there is Scarlett. Katie Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett's: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she'll ever know...
Brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, Rhett Butler's People fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by Gone With The Wind.
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4.3
51 reviews
Jessica Irwin
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March 20, 2016
A passionate 'Gone With the Wind' fan, such as myself, might not enjoy the liberties Mr McCaig took with the story of Scarlett and Rhett Butler. I enjoyed the idea of a book that paralleled their story, but I missed Margarett Mitchell's prose and accuracy and detail in building her characters. I don't feel like this version of Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley or Melanie were as true as those in the original works. I much prefer the other sequel, 'Scarlett' to this particular version.
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A Google user
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April 3, 2012
This book was an absolute waste of my time and money. A totally "unbelieveable" Rhett and did not even "align" with GWTW, facts stated in GWTW about Rhett.
I only finished reading it so I could truthfully say I had read it. Loaned it to another "southern" woman to read and she stopped at chapter 2.
the actual rating I wold have given it had it been available was a MINUS 5.
Beverly k Ivie
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May 1, 2019
I read GWTW,,@ SCARLETT,, afterwards this book and I must say ,,I was disappointed,, it seems both of the ladder books where not similar in the ending as I thought it should have been ,, I am sorry I bought and read the last 2 books ,,I don't think I'll ever b able to enjoy GWTW again ,,seeing how much the 2 ladder books end so differently ,, DISAPPOINTED!!!!🙄😞😦😩
About the author
Donald McCaig (1940-2018) is the award-winning author of Jacob’s Ladder, designated “the best civil war novel ever written” by The Virginia Quarterly. People magazine raved “Think Gone With the Wind, think Cold Mountain.” It won the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction. He was selected by the estate of Margaret Mitchell to write the Gone with the Wind follow up novels Rhett Butler's People and Ruth's Journey.
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