Ruth's journey : the authorized novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind / Donald McCaig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCaig, Donald.

Contributor:

Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved women--Fiction.

Enslaved women.

History.

Southern States.

Southern States--History--1775-1865--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

374 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atria Books, 2014.

Summary:

Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, here is the first-ever prequel to one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of all time, Gone with the Wind. The critically acclaimed author of Rhett Butler's People magnificently recounts the life of Mammy, one of literature's greatest supporting characters, from her days as a slave girl to the outbreak of the Civil War.

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 once a proud woman and a captive, and a strict disciplinarian who has never experienced freedom herself, Mammy endures, a rock in the river of time.

Notes:

Color maps on endpapers.

Related Work:

Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. Gone with the wind.

ISBN:

1451643535

9781451643534

OCLC:

888025295

Publisher Number:

99960548971