Volume 38, Number 21 · December 19, 1991
Look Away, Dixie Land
By Patricia Storace
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell
by Darden Asbury Pyron
Oxford University Press, 533 pp., $26.00
Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With the Wind'
by Alexandra Ripley
Warner, 823 pp., $24.95
'Oakland cemetery hasn't changed much in the hundred and thirty-odd years it has sheltered Atlanta's favored dead,' writes the contemporary Atlanta novelist, Anne Rivers Siddons, in her novel Peachtree Road. 'Our crowd has always been in and out of Oakland almost as frequently and as easily as we enter and leave our homes and clubs…. Lucy always swore that it was here that she and Red Chastain first made love, on top of Margaret Mitchell's grave.'
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