Varina : a novel / Charles Frazier.
With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot centre of one of the darkest moments in American history -- culpable regardless of her intentions. Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman's tragic life and epic in its scope and power, this is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062405982 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 356 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. |
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Summary:
With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot centre of one of the darkest moments in American history -- culpable regardless of her intentions. Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman's tragic life and epic in its scope and power, this is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.