Synopses & Reviews
Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate
, Rhett Butlers 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 Butlers 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 Rhetts eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchells unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhetts unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhetts best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett OHara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War.
Of course there is Scarlett. Katie Scarlett OHara, 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 shell ever know…
Brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, Rhett Butlers People fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by Gone With The Wind.
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 Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction.