Varina : a novel /
Frazier, Charles, 1950-
Varina : a novel / Charles Frazier. - First edition. - 356 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 356).
"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"--
9780062405982 0062405985
Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 --Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Varina : a novel / Charles Frazier. - First edition. - 356 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 356).
"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"--
9780062405982 0062405985
Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 --Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.