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I'll answer that here, because I can't answer it there.
I rarely look at Amazon reviews. I try not to, because it's frustrating, and there's nothing I can do about it.
Today, however, I had to go over there to check an ISBN and I looked at the first comment (most recent), to find this, from KT of New York:
The one big thing that threw me off was that this 'sequel' to 'The Last of the Mohicans' is actually for the movie version not the classic by James Fenimore Cooper. For one thing, Cora Munro dies in the original story with Uncas, and there is no mention of Hawkeye marrying anyone.So now I'm going to say this once and for all. I'm going to say it loud and clear: I never, ever said that Into the Wilderness was supposed to be a sequel to Last of the Mohicans. A reviewer called it a sequel to Last of the Mohicans and people assumed that the reviewer had his or her facts straight. This was the same reviewer who said my penname is Rosina Lippi and my real name Sara Donati. So, not a reliable source of information, okay?
Thus: Into the Wilderness is not, was never meant to be, a sequel to any version of Last of the Mohicans, movie, book, whatever. It was meant to be a retelling of The Pioneers.
Finally, let me point out that a retelling is just that: the story reimagined. I gave Hawkeye a wife, a son, a home. Because I wanted to. My retelling.
And now, less cranky:
Good progress today, fifteen pages, give or take. Jennet insisted on writing a letter, among other things.
December 7, 2005 04:31 PM
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hmmmmmm... you can't say it there, but can one of us?
Posted by: Danielle at December 7, 2005 06:34 PM
Haha, Danielle, I was thinking the same thing.
Posted by: sarandipity at December 8, 2005 11:03 AM
Finally, let me point out that a retelling is just that: the story reimagined. I gave Hawkeye a wife, a son, a home. Because I wanted to. My retelling.
So basically it's fanfic?
(runs away)
Posted by: Joshua at December 12, 2005 07:58 PM
Joshua: don't go! you're right. And West Side Story is fanfic, too.
Posted by: Sara Donati at December 12, 2005 10:06 PM