Frazier, Charles

Varina : a novel / Charles Frazier - New York : HarperCollins Publishers , 2018 - 356 p. ; 24 cm.

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.


English.

9780062405982


Davis, Varina---Fiction---1826-1906
Man-woman relationships----Fiction


United States---History---Civil war, 1861-1865----Fiction


Historical fiction
Biographical fiction

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