Varina

Varina

by Charles Frazier
Varina

Varina

by Charles Frazier

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Overview

Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?

In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War

Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history—culpable regardless of her intentions.

The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives with “bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.”

Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman’s tragic life and epic in its scope and power, Varina is a novel of an American war and its aftermath. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.

 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062406002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 04/03/2018
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 212,058
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Charles Frazier is the author of Cold Mountain, an international bestseller that won the National Book Award and was adapted into an Academy-Award winning film by Anthony Minghella. He is also the author of the bestselling novels Thirteen Moons and Nightwoods.

Hometown:

Raleigh, North Carolina

Date of Birth:

1950

Place of Birth:

Asheville, North Carolina

Education:

B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; M.A., Ph.D., Appalachian State University
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