Varina
Subtitle: a novel
By: Charles Frazier
Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780062406019
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Fiction; Man-woman relationships; History
Description: 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.
Notes: "Larger print"--Spine.

Includes bibliographical references (page 494).