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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

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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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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.

Wow I am constantly amazed at how much I dislike books I have a fond memory of enjoying decades ago.

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

Several of my favorite novels, I have discovered, were written by people who had no business writing a novel like that. This is one of them.Allan Gurganus managed to write a novel about the past hundred and fifty years in the deep south, in the voice of a woman, while keeping it sincere, engaging, realistic, and entertaining. The characters feel real. Even the people who only inhabit the book for a page. This book takes an historical time and makes it a breathing place; if that distinction makes

This book was a huge best seller in the 80's when it came out but I can't see the appeal.Lucy married a 50 year old confederate war veteran when she was 15. Reading this book. I actually stopped reading and I thought, there was no way a woman wrote this because of the way the character spoke and the internal monologue thought process. So I looked at the author, and sure enough, it was a man. I knew it. It comes across as an ill-informed man writing about the inner workings of the female mind.

I read this when it first came out in 2001, and it still sticks in my memory!

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.