Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
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Gurganus, Allan. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. [Signed]. First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 16 x 24cm. (14), 718 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Deckled edges. Excellent condition. Signed by the author on title page. 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 twentieth 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. [From notes to paperback edition]
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