Varina - Large Print by Charles Frazier (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong><em>Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?</em></strong></p><p><strong>In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of <em>Cold Mountain</em>, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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."</p><p>Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman's tragic life and epic in its scope and power, <em>Varina </em>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.</p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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</p><p>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.</p><p>The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond, Virginia, and travel south on their own, now fugitives with "bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit."</p><p>Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman's tragic life, and epic in its scope and power, <em>Varina</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"No writer today crafts more exquisite sentences than Charles Frazier."--<em>USA Today</em><br><br>"Perfectly evocative . . . A finely wrought novel that will reward rereading. Elegiac without being exculpatory, it is an indictment of complicity without ignoring the historic complexity of the great evil at the core of American history."--<em>Washington Post</em><br><br>"Frazier works on an epic scale, but his genius is in the details--he has a scholar's command of the physical realities of early America and a novelist's gift for bringing them to life."--<em>Time</em><br><br>"Beautifully rendered...Frazier in this, his fourth novel, lyrically resurrects the blasted but hauntingly beautiful Southern landscape just after the war...Varina Davis becomes a marvelously fallible character, complicated enough to stand on her compromised own."--The New York Times<br><br>"Charles Frazier's feeling for the Southern landscape is reverential and beautifully composed."--New York Review of Books<br>
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