Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel
by Allan Gurganus
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Author: Allan GurganusEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-10-16
ISBN: 0375726632
Number of pages: 736
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: an epic american history - unputdownable!
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Written amazingly by a man, University lecturer Allan Gurganus, this massive tale is told through the voice and memories of a 98 year old widow of the American Civil War. She is telling her memoirs c. 1980, to a young researcher. The widow was married in her teens to a 50 plus year old Confederate General whose story she tells. The book also steps aside for a gruelling account of the round-up and transportation of slaves from a peaceful African village to a life of unredeemed misery on the plantations. [In this it predates the film Amistad by some time and does, arguably, an even better job.] The book changes from 1st person to narrative with flawless ease and despite its length has an economy of language which absolutely captures the graphic detail of America's bloodiest strife. In this sense it rivals Dickens and Zangwill in taking you to the very place it describes. A masterpiece that deserves coverage and should be filmed by Spielberg.
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