Biography lucy marsden
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
This article is about the original book.
Biography lucy marsden
For the film adaptation, see Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (film).
1989 novel by Allan Gurganus
| Author | Allan Gurganus |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Published | 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is a 1989 first novel by Allan Gurganus[1] which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for eight months.
It won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[2] was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and sold over four million copies.
The novel is written as supposedly dictated to a visitor to the nursing home of ninety-nine-year-old Lucy Marsden, who was married around 1900 when she was 15 and her husband, Captain William Marsden, was 50.[1] Through this motif, the novel explores issues of race and personal relationships in the historical context