Scarlett (Ripley novel)

Scarlett is the title of a 1991 novel by Alexandra Ripley published, which is a continuation of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind.

Novel

Main character of Alexandra Ripley's book is again Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine of Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind to published. The plot of the novel Scarlett plays first in Atlanta, switches on the plantation Tara to Charleston and after about two -thirds of the novel to Ireland.

Action

Scarlett tries to win back her husband Rhett, having separated after the death of Melanie from her. After initially stretches the arms, she follows him after the death of her old nurse Mammy in his hometown of Charleston, where she initially lived with her ​​old aunts.

After Rhett's mother learns that Scarlett is living in Charleston, she takes them into her home. There she made ​​the acquaintance of Rhett's siblings and the Society of Charleston. You quickly realize that this company is arrested as narrow-minded and with the past as the " old guard " of Atlanta, she has always despised.

After a failed first sailing trip she flees to the relatives of her father to Savannah to travel from there to Ireland and learn about their roots. After she finds that she is expecting a child of Rhett, they must learn that this during their absence has divorced to marry Anne Hampton. Defiantly Scarlett decides that he should never know of the existence of his child.

In Ireland, she meets her very elderly grandmother, cousin know their Father Colum and the rest of the extended family and decides to grab them by the arms. She buys back the old family-owned and located Ballyhara the associated village.

But the lonely country life quickly loses its appeal, and she joins the English upper class, which meets with the Irish fierce criticism. After an uprising in which Ballyhara is destroyed and the superstitious population has it in her daughter Cat, hurries her once again to help Rhett Butler, whose wife died pregnant. The two decide to try it again with each other.

TV filming

Alexandra Ripley's novel was filmed in 1994 in the form of the eponymous mini TV series ( four episodes of 90 minutes each ). The screenplay was written by William Hanley.

Reviews

The New York Times wrote that the novel had with Gone with the Wind, only the names of the protagonists in common and was " cultural cannibalism ".