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Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heoines in American literature.
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is proof that brilliant, emotional storytelling remains at the heart of great fiction.
“Exuberant.… Unforgettable … manages to encompass every extreme from the languishing Southern belle awaiting Sherman’s vengeful troops to a present-day candy striper.… This vast array of voices—from a toddler to an old man, from a schoolmarm nicknamed Witch by her pupils to a slave who was something of an African tribal witch—issues from the mouth of the unforgettable Lucy Marsden.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Those of you who haven’t yet read this astonishing first novel should immediately commence doing so; leave those of us who already have experienced the book to start rereading.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“The novel’s presentation of this terrible, convulsive struggle gives a renewed, sobering sense of the horror, pity, and loss of that war.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Gurganus, a storyteller in the grand tradition, can tell his stories as well as anyone alive.”
—The New York Times
ENJOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their
Fellow Men!
Thank you Mr. Donne
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