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Title	:	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Author	:	Allan Gurganus
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 736 pages
Published	:	October 16th 2001 by Vintage (first published October 1st 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Military History. Civil War

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Allan Gurganus

Paperback | Pages: 736 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 5764 Users | 354 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
ISBN:	0375726632 (ISBN13: 9780375726637)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (1990), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1991), Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1990)

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Ratings: 3.84 From 5764 Users | 354 Reviews

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I just cant do this. The story is interesting enough, but the conversational way the story is told by one very old southern lady is too much to follow. May pick at it a little over time....

Whenever I'm reading this book I remember how much I love it, and yet after I've finished it and moved on to other things I forget it. I don't forget what happens or what it's about - I forgot how much I like it. It's strange.It's a big old rambling book - the personal recollections of Lucille Marsden, married at fifteen to a Confederate war veteran a good forty years older than her. It's not told in any kind of narrative order, it skips and jumps backwards and forwards through the years, things

Welp... I'm throwing in the towel. I made it to about the 68% mark...The 3 stars are for what I did read. And I did like what I read, but this book was just overly long. I think the story and setting of each time in the life of Lucy could have been condensed a little. Who is Lucy? Well, she's the fictional 99 year old woman, the wife of the last confederate soldier telling all. The story follows along her life as she tells it from her bed at the Land's End nursing home she now lives in. What I

A big novel, both in narrative scope and in heft, this unfortunately didn't come close to living up to some of the praise on the jacket cover. Lucy Marsden, about to celebrate her 100th year of life, tells her story to an unnamed narrator from the bed of her nursing home, flashing back to her wedding at age 15 (circa 1900) to a Civil War vet in her small North Carolina town that's 30 years her senior, and of their life together. More accurately, it's the story of a segment of that time, starting

While this book was beautifully written, it just goes on for far too long. It just goes and goes and goes into the story of this woman's life and her husband's life, and when narrator runs out of anything to talk about at around page 500 (after having stretched in for the last 100), she just keeps on going for another 200 pages. I've read Anna Karenina and War and Peace and those earned their length - this did not.

I read Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All *once* years and years ago (maybe more than 20(?) years ago, now). I can't quite pinpoint exactly what impact this story had on me, but there are times that I *still* think about scenes from this book. Something about it just got into me and stayed put. And I tell you what, give me Lucy Marsden over that annoying Scarlett O'Hara any day.

This is one of my all time favorite books. I read it some years ago, but still have my copy. This should definitely return to my "to read" list. The narrator, Lucille (Lucy) Marsden, tells the story of her marriage to "Captain" Will Marsden, ostensibly the Civil War's last survivor, whom she married when she was 15 and he was 50. She also tells about her husband's experiences in the war and after, the burning of her mother-in-law's plantation by Sherman's men, and the abduction from Africa of a