Chronicles the life of Rhett Butler from his free-spirited boyhood. Meet the people who helped shape the man: the overseer's daughter, his sister, the son of freed slaves, and his best friend. Based on Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind.

3) Ruth's journey: the authorized novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

Author

McCaig, Donald

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

Description

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On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor-- an infant girl who falls into the hands of two French émigrés. They take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth's life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South. At...

4) Canaan: a novel

Author

McCaig, Donald

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

2007

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

426 p. ; 25 cm.

Language

English

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This sequel to Donald McCaig's award-winning Civil War novel Jacob's Ladder delivers a gripping saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a diverse ensemble of characters, including Edward, a wartime top sergeant for the 38th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. Travelling west as a scout, trail cook, cattle driver, and sharpshooter, he marries...

5) Nop's Hope

Author

McCaig, Donald

Publisher

Crown Publishers

Pub. Date

c1994

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

230 p. ; 24 cm.

Language

English

6) An American homeplace

Author

McCaig, Donald

Publisher

Crown

Pub. Date

c1992

Edition

1st. ed.

Physical Desc

228 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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In the early 1960s Donald McCaig left his job at a hot New York advertising agency and his Greenwich Village apartment for a rustic farm in a remote county in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. This is McCaig's story of farming in contemporary America, a timely tribute to a dying way of life.