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Varina : a novel Book
Book | First edition. | Ecco, New York, NY : [2018]

  • 7 of 7 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Fort Erie Library System
  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
Place Hold
Branch Call Number Location Holdable? Status
Centennial FIC FRAZI 2018 Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
About

In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War. 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 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. --
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  • ISBN: 0062405985
  • ISBN: 9780062405982
  • Physical Description: print356 pages
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, [2018]
  • Copyright: ©2018
  • General Note: LSC 34.99
  • Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.

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