01463cam a2200337 i 4500 370163577 TxAuBib 20190214120000.0 170709s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062856135 0062856138 (OCoLC)993420827 TxAuBib rda Frazier, Charles, 1950- Varina : a novel / Charles Frazier. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] ©2018. 356 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page 356.) "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"-- Provided by publisher. 20190214. Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction.