![]() He is, as soon becomes clear, a hellraiser. ![]() The 500-page book opens an hour before sunrise on a misty morning in the Carolinas where the young Rhett Butler, immortalised by Clark Gable in the movie, is preparing to fight a duel. Rhett Butler's People, by Donald McCaig, is both prequel and sequel, and purports to tell that sweeping story of love and loss from the point of view of the rakish scoundrel who is really Scarlett O'Hara's great love, as she realises too late. "The public itself wanted another sequel," Paul Anderson, a member of the committee that advises Mitchell's estate, told reporters. ![]() On Tuesday readers will get another opportunity to indulge a nostalgia for the antebellum south that just won't die with the release of yet another take on the Margaret Mitchell novel. ![]()
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