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Signed 1st Edition of "Varina" by Charles Frazier
- Item Number
- T654
- Estimated Value
- 150 USD
- Opening Bid
- 50 USD
Item Description
In 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 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 historyculpable regardless of her intentions. The 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. 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 book is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.
Item Special Note
This item will be available for pick up at the Peninsula Education Foundation Office located at 300 A Paseo Del Mar, PVE on Tuesday, May 14th between 8:30am and 10:30am and Wednesday, May 15th between 2:30pm and 5:00pm. If winner requests item to be shipped, winner will pay all shipping costs. Winner will be charged applicable California sales tax.
Donated By:
Terence Hammer
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