{"product_id":"rhett-butlers-people-the-authorized-novel-based-on-margaret-mitchells-gone-with-the-wind-9781250065308","title":"Rhett Butler's People: The Authorized Novel Based on Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, \u003ci\u003eRhett Butler's People\u003c\/i\u003e is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, \u003ci\u003eGone With The Wind\u003c\/i\u003e. Twelve years in the making, the publication of \u003ci\u003eRhett Butler's People\u003c\/i\u003e marks a major and historic cultural event.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOf 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... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, \u003ci\u003eRhett Butler's People\u003c\/i\u003e fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by \u003ci\u003eGone With The Wind\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald McCaig (1940-2018)\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eJacob's Ladder\u003c\/i\u003e, designated \"the best civil war novel ever written\" by \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e magazine raved \"Think \u003ci\u003eGone With the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, think \u003ci\u003eCold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMountain\u003c\/i\u003e.\" 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 \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e follow up novels \u003ci\u003eRhett Butler's People \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRuth's Journey. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631288815890,"sku":"9781250065308","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a2cd478f-cac3-4f72-a1b5-6941ca4ceb69.jpg?v=1732767743","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rhett-butlers-people-the-authorized-novel-based-on-margaret-mitchells-gone-with-the-wind-9781250065308","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}