Varina: A Novel
- Author: Charles Frazier
- Narrator: Molly Parker
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 12:06:14
Synopsis
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.
With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. He 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.
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 woman’s 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.
Chapters
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021 Scaffold
Duration: 26min -
022 Burnt Planation
Duration: 17min -
023 No milk for the chidren
Duration: 23min -
024 Fifth Sunday
Duration: 28min -
025 V and Jeff lay on a pallet of quilts
Duration: 16min -
026 Fortress Monroe
Duration: 17min -
027 The Big Mansion at The Hurricane
Duration: 24min -
028 Sixth Sunday-16
Duration: 28min -
029 One morning Mary mentioned that Ellen
Duration: 24min -
030 At five the next afternoon pretending she'd
Duration: 19min -
031 After the Deluge 1879 to 1893
Duration: 28min -
032 Seventh Sunday
Duration: 14min -
033 Credits
Duration: 48s