Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Name: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Allan Gurganus
ISBN: 9781501971174

Author: Allan Gurganus

Narrator: Barbara McCulloh

Unabridged: 49 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/15/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

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 Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the 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. Lucy's 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 a marvel of narrative showmanship and proof that brilliant, emotional storytelling remains at the heart of great fiction. Author bio: Allan Gurganus is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Book Prize, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a finalist of the PEN/Faulkner Award. Adaptations of his fiction have earned four Emmys. He lives in a small town in North Carolina.

About Allan Gurganus

Allan Gurganus is widely translated, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Adaptations of his fiction have earned four Emmys, and his stories have been appearing in the New Yorker since 1974. He lives in a small town in North Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sally

Have you ever picked up a book simply because the title intrigued you? This was just such a book, and once I cracked it open, it became impossible to put it down. It was one of the most compelling and memorable books I have read in years and it has stayed with me all these years since I read it. It......more

Goodreads review by Caroline

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 Marsd......more

Goodreads review by Alexw

While the Civil War battle scenes were very vivid and thrilling, most of the book was about growing up in the South with characters that would bore Tom Sawyer.......more

Goodreads review by Michele

Possibly the longest book I've read where, when I finished it, I wanted to go back and read it again. As a Northerner, at the time I read it, I was rather clueless about the Civil War and the South. I'm mildly more clued-in these days, but this book helped open up a voice and an attitude for me that......more

Goodreads review by Chris

I rescued this hardbound edition some time ago in the dim past. First copyright is from 1984, and this book/edition was published in 1989. Excerpts as short stories appeared in a number of different magazines. As I recall this was a pretty bit hit in its time. I decided to read it based on a short s......more