Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

by Allan Gurganus

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Editions of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

ISBN 9780394545370	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1989	Price $1.00	Used, Very Good
ISBN 9780517067697	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Value Pub	Date 1991	Price $6.02	Very Good
ISBN 9780394581415	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Random House	Date 1989	Price $2.48	Very Good
ISBN 9780804106436	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Ballantine Books	Date 1990	Price $1.00	Like New
ISBN 9780375726637	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Vintage Books	Date 2001	Price $4.49	Very Good

Publisher Notes

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.

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