Rhett Butler's People by Donald Mccaig

Rhett Butler's People by Donald Mccaig

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.

Donald McCaig is the award-winning author of Canaan and Jacob's Ladder, which the Virginia Quarterly named the best Civil War novel ever written. It won the Library of Virginia Prize for Fiction and the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. Margaret Mitchell's estate chose him to create Rhett Butler's People, an official sequel to Gone with the Wind. He writes fiction, essays, and poems and trains and trials sheep dogs on a sheep farm in the mountains outside Williamsville, Virginia.