The Resource Varina : a novel, Charles Frazier
Varina : a novel, Charles Frazier
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- Summary
- With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best option is to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. When he instead pursues a career in politics and is appointed President of the Confederacy, it puts Varina at the white-hot centre of one of the darkest moments in American history culpable regardless of her intentions. As the Confederacy prepares to surrender and she finds herself friendless and alone, Varina and her children escape Richmond. With her marriage in tatters and the country divided, they travel south, now fugitives with 'bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 356 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473686144
- Label
- Varina : a novel
- Title
- Varina
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles Frazier
- Subject
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- Historical fiction
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Fiction
- trueSocial conflict
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueBiographical fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueCivil War
- trueMarried women
- trueAmerican Civil War era (1861-1865) -- 1861 -- 1865
- truePoliticians' spouses
- Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 -- Fiction
- trueDavis, Varina, 1826-1906
- trueWomen fugitives
- trueConfederate States of America
- trueMississippi
- trueWomen -- History
- Fiction
- trueWar
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
- trueUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best option is to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. When he instead pursues a career in politics and is appointed President of the Confederacy, it puts Varina at the white-hot centre of one of the darkest moments in American history culpable regardless of her intentions. As the Confederacy prepares to surrender and she finds herself friendless and alone, Varina and her children escape Richmond. With her marriage in tatters and the country divided, they travel south, now fugitives with 'bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit
- Summary
- Forced by limited prospects to marry much-older widower Jefferson Davis, teenaged Varina Howell finds her expectations as the wife of a Mississippi landowner upended by his appointment as the leader of the Confederacy, a situation that renders her and her children fugitives in a divided and increasingly hostile nation
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10638462
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Frazier, Charles
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Davis, Varina
- Davis, Jefferson
- Man-woman relationships
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Varina : a novel, Charles Frazier
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 356 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473686144
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- Label
- Varina : a novel, Charles Frazier
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 356 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473686144
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
Subject
- trueAmerican Civil War era (1861-1865) -- 1861 -- 1865
- trueBiographical fiction
- trueCivil War
- trueConfederate States of America
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Fiction
- trueDavis, Varina, 1826-1906
- Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueMarried women
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMississippi
- truePoliticians' spouses
- trueSocial conflict
- trueUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
- trueWar
- trueWomen -- History
- trueWomen fugitives
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