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<text id=91TT1278>
<title>
June 10, 1991: Tomorrow Comes At Last
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
June 10, 1991 Evil
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
PEOPLE, Page 78
Tomorrow Comes At Last
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<p>By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Wendy Cole
</p>
<p> We last saw her, weary and downtrodden, on page 1037,
declaring "Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back.
After all, tomorrow is another day." Now tomorrow has finally
come for Scarlett O'Hara, the feisty heroine of Margaret
Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. And it couldn't be soon enough
for the millions of fans who have been musing for 55 years on
what she did after Rhett Butler told her he didn't "give a
damn."
</p>
<p> Four years in the making and published a year later than
expected, Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley will finally be out in
September. The novel picks up where GWTW left off, or so one can
assume. Ripley isn't allowed to talk about it. "I'm terrible at
keeping secrets," she says, "but I gave my word to the Mitchell
estate lawyers, and they'd rip my tongue out with hot pincers
if I talked." The secrecy also meant security precautions for
Ripley, 57. She did all her writing in longhand ("I am not
machine compatible," she says). But in order to prevent leaks,
she couldn't use her usual typists for Scarlett. Instead her two
daughters had to type and retype the entire work. "They will
never let me forget it," quipped the author, who lives near
Richmond.
</p>
<p> Though thrilled at having been the one chosen to pen the
sequel ("I was so terrified some Yankee was going to do it," she
says), Ripley does feel the awesome burden of satisfying GWTW
fans. The author of several best-selling historical novels says
she reread Mitchell's work four times and copied out more than
300 pages of the original prose to get a feel for its style.
"As a writer she broke every rule, using different tenses in
the same paragraph and mixing points of view," Ripley points
out. "I had to train myself to do the same." She brushes off
published rumors that the book's delay was due to a poor
manuscript. "For people who love Gone With the Wind, this will
be more of the same thing. It really is a very good read." But
it has to be. Practically the whole world awaits it.
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</body></article>
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