{"product_id":"oldest-living-confederate-widow-tells-all-isbn-9780375726637","title":"Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All","description":"Allan Gurganus's \u003cb\u003eOldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eOldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All\u003c\/b\u003e is a marvel of narrative showmanship and proof that brilliant, emotional storytelling remains at the heart of great fiction.\"Bawdy, raucous, comic... The story of the South in all its tragic and self-perceived glory.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"An old-fashioned book-lovers? novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A big book in every way, one hell of an American novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAllan 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.National Bestseller","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302402543845,"sku":"NP9780375726637","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375726637.jpg?v=1767734058","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/oldest-living-confederate-widow-tells-all-isbn-9780375726637","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}