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OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL <i> by Allan Gurganus (Alfred A. Knopf: $21.95; 718 pp.) </i>

“Gurganus’ novel is a huge undertaking, justified in its length by faith to the complexity of the events it recounts in language pearly with wit, firm in intelligence. . . .”

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