description: 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.
language: English
title: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
titlecomplete: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
genres: Civil War, American, Historical, Historical Fiction, Southern, Novels, American History, American Civil War, War, Fiction
ratings_count: 6187
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
publisher: Random House Value Publishing