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Frankly, My Dear: "Gone With The Wind" Revisited (2009)

by Molly Haskell(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0300117523 (ISBN13: 9780300117523)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Yale University Press

review 1: i really enjoyed this book. a must-read for the gone with the wind fanatic, but also a nice diversion if you are someone who is wondering what all the hype surrounding the book and the movie is about. my only complaint is that i felt like author kept apologizing for liking gone with the wind. it was annoying. there is no shame in liking a book filled with fluff and controversial topics. how many books can straddle both of those fences? ms. haskell was a tad too over-analytical about the reasons ms. mitchell wrote the book. there is such a thing as writing for enjoyment. not everything is a political or emotional platform.
review 2: Die-hard Gone With the Wind lovers will find new insights into the 1939 classic film and the book that launched it. Fascinating to... more learn the influences author Margaret Mitchell's life had on her American treasure. The conflicting aspects of race, sex, humor, gender and history are what have made it so rich and enduring. Just consider those characters: a Southern lady who is one tough broad; a brash rogue who is destroyed by love; a passive matron who fights like hell to defend the sister-in-law/ friend she adores; a lowly slave who is the one who knows all. Gone With the Wind has been called The American Bible, and if that label fits- this is the perfect Bible study guide. less

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