TY - BOOK AU - Frazier,Charles TI - Varina: a novel SN - 9780062405982 PY - 2018///] CY - New York, NY PB - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers KW - Davis, Varina, KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Fiction KW - United States KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Biographical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 356) N2 - "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"-- ER -