{"product_id":"varina-a-novel-isbn-9780062834386","title":"Varina: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of \u003cem\u003eCold Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives with “bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntimate in its detailed observations of one woman’s tragic life and epic in its scope and power, \u003cem\u003eVarina \u003c\/em\u003eis a novel of an American war and its aftermath. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of cold mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond, Virginia, and travel south on their own, now fugitives with “bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntimate in its detailed observations of one woman’s tragic life, and epic in its scope and power, \u003cem\u003eVarina\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of an American war and its aftermath. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Beautifully rendered…Frazier in this, his fourth novel, lyrically resurrects the blasted but hauntingly beautiful Southern landscape just after the war...Varina Davis becomes a marvelously fallible character, complicated enough to stand on her compromised own.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“No writer today crafts more exquisite sentences than Charles Frazier.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Frazier works on an epic scale, but his genius is in the details--he has a scholar’s command of the physical realities of early America and a novelist’s gift for bringing them to life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Charles Frazier’s feeling for the Southern landscape is reverential and beautifully composed.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Perfectly evocative . . . A finely wrought novel that will reward rereading. Elegiac without being exculpatory, it is an indictment of complicity without ignoring the historic complexity of the great evil at the core of American history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888944181477,"sku":"NP9780062834386","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/varina-a-novel-isbn-9780062834386","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}