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 … 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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Young Rhett Butler believed the years to come wouldn’t be different from the years he’d already lived. He was disgraced. He would always be disgraced. He was alone; he would always be alone. Rhett could endure being unloved. He could not live without loving.
This is a companion book to Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell whose estate chose …
I was unfamiliar with Rhett Butler’s People until my mother presented me a copy for my reading enjoyment. Enjoy it, I did. Donald McCaig beautifully depicts Civil War-era Charleston; having been there twice recently, part of the fun for me was imagining these places, many of which still exist, in the setting he creates. He also deftly incorporates …