Varina - Charles Frazier

Charles Frazier

Category: Adults

Tags: Adults, Historical Fiction

Publisher: HarperAudio Release date: April 3, 2018 Duration: 12:07:37, 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., Intimate in its detailed observations of one womans tragic life and epic in its scope and power, Varina is a novel of an American war and its aftermath. Ultimately, the audiobook is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences., Varina Howell Davis (18261906), wife and widow of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, is an inspired choice as heroine for Fraziers riveting fourth novel (following Nightwoods). Being on the wrong side of history carries consequences, he writes, and the events of Varinas life propel a suspenseful narrative. A quotation from her letters, my name is a heritage of woe, is an apt description of the life depicted: Varina, called V throughout, is married at 18 to the much older Davis; becomes the mo