{"product_id":"oldest-living-confederate-widow-tells-all-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923977277714,"sku":"9780375726637","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6a7556f0-0388-4693-9e37-dbf4be527526.jpg?v=1738966872","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/oldest-living-confederate-widow-tells-all-9780375726637","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}