{"product_id":"9781250065308","title":"Rhett Butler's People","description":"Fully 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.\u003cp\u003e    Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfold. 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 onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared for long before he met Scarlett O'Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    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…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Brought 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Donald McCaig 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. People magazine raved, \"Think \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind,\u003c\/i\u003e think \u003ci\u003eCold Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e.\" It won the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    \"\u003ci\u003eRhett Butler's People\u003c\/i\u003e covers the period from 1843 to 1874, nearly two decades more than are chronicled in \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e. Readers will…get inside Rhett's head as he meets and courts Scarlett O'Hara in one of the most famous love affairs of all time.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \"McCaig is a bred-in-the-bones storyteller.\" -Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Geraldine Brooks  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024315334896,"sku":"9781250065308","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250065308_p0.jpg?v=1763762591","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250065308","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}