Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"When he isn't worried about That Novel, [McCaig] writes with confidence. Likewise, Rhett Butler's People reads best when considered on its own merits, without regard to its monumental predecessor, to which it owes thanks but not allegiance." The Washington Post Book World
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"McCaig's a decent writer, and the plot is better than middling. But he's missed the point about Scarlett nothing affected her indomitable spirit and innate selfishness. And since everything must come back to her in the end as it does even in McCaig's novel a docile, vapid Scarlett is worse than no Scarlett at all. (Grade: C+)" Entertainment Weekly
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"McCaig's prose captures something of the charm and smoothness of the original. He understands that the power of Mitchell's narrative arose because she set the romance against momentous events....In reducing Rhett to a perplexed and worrying Everyman, McCaig reduces the power of Mitchell's original." Stephen L. Carter, The New York Times Book Review
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"Rhett Butler's People is only half-awful....By the end, the book dissolves into such a soap opera, you want to yell at Rhett to skip the Twelve Oaks barbecue. Ride on, Mr. Butler. Let McCaig write his own books, and spare us more authorized sequels!" USA Today
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"McCaig is a bred-in-the bones storyteller." Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks
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"[T]he characters McCaig creates and expands improve the familiar tale by contributing suspense...to what might otherwise have been a tour of Rhett's head....Rhett's dutiful, lovesick side will disappoint some readers, but Rhett Butler's People is a better homage than it deserves to be. (Rating: B)" The Onion A.V. Club
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, this is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels Gone with the Wind. Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfold.
Synopsis
Rhett Butler
Renegade. Outcast. Rebel. Lover. Gambler. Southerner. A mystery…
Until now.
Rhett Butlers People fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by Americas greatest novel, Gone With The Wind. Here youll meet Rhett as a boy, a free spirit who loved the marshes and tidewaters of the Low Country, and learn of the ruthlessness of Rhetts father, whose desire for control resulted in unspeakable. Through Rhetts eyes, youll encounter those who shaped him in other ways: the Overseers daughter, Belle Watling; Rosemary, Rhetts brave and determined sister; Tunis Bonneau, the son of freed slaves who understood the young Rhett like no one else; and Jack Ravanel, whose name became inextricably linked to heartbreak. And then theres Katie Scarlett OHara herself—the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhetts: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than either of them will ever know…
“Get inside Rhetts head as he meets and courts Scarlett in one of the most famous love affairs of all time…”—The New York Times
Synopsis
The astonishing and long-awaited novel, authorized by Margaret Mitchell's estate, that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind
Synopsis
Rhett Butlers People fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by Americas greatest novel, Gone With The Wind. Here youll meet Rhett as a boy, a free spirit who loved the marshes and tidewaters of the Low Country, and learn of the ruthlessness of Rhetts father, whose desire for control resulted in unspeakable. Through Rhetts eyes, youll encounter those who shaped him in other ways: the Overseers daughter, Belle Watling; Rosemary, Rhetts brave and determined sister; Tunis Bonneau, the son of freed slaves who understood the young Rhett like no one else; and Jack Ravanel, whose name became inextricably linked to heartbreak. And then theres Katie Scarlett OHara herself—the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhetts: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than either of them will ever know…
About the Author
Donald McCaig is the award-winning author of Jacobs 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 Sharra Award for Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction. John Bedford Lloyd, a graduate of Yales School of Drama, has appeared in a host of major motion pictures, including Crossing Delancey, The Abyss, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Bourne Supremacy. His television credits include Law & Order, Spin City, and The West Wing. His critically-acclaimed audiobook narration includes reading for authors such as Michael Crichton, Nicholas Sparks, Paul Doiron, and Atul Gawande, among others. In reviewing Johns performance in Better by Atul Gawande, published by Macmillan Audio, AudioFile magazine declared, “John Bedford Lloyd's deep, rich voice delivers just the mix we look for in doctors--knowledgeable, authoritarian tones mixed with the warm, comforting style that characterizes a great bedside manner.”