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File Size: 1525 KB
Print Length: 368 pages
Publisher: Ecco (April 3, 2018)
Publication Date: April 3, 2018
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B07257Z8HK
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From now on I will always read the sample pages online. If I had known that Frazier doesn’t use quotation marks around dialog, I would not have bought this. It is sad that so many readers overlook this and award the book 4 or 5 stars. I’m my opinion, this quirk makes for clunky reading. This, coupled with his sometimes over the top metaphors, only brings attention to the author. When reading a book you want the opposite effect, you want to be transported to another place. Here, you stop and notice the quirks. Also, I found the narrative very jumpy, hard to follow. I have read many recent popular historical novels about the old South and I loved them. In this book I didn’t get a true sense of place, despite the many metaphors. I’m sure there is a good story in here, but readers shouldn’t have to work so hard to find it.
This was a terrific read! Frazier takes us through the passages of Varina's life as a mirror to the life of the South during her years from youth to old age. Frazier's depiction of the antebellum South, complete with the neurotic obsession of her soon-to-be brother-in-law's vision of a slave culture and her soon-to-be husband's unique relationship with his overseer/slave/friend, Pemberton, precisely defines what southerners meant by the term "the peculiar institution." Her flight southward is of course metaphoric for the flight of any southerners in the disastrous end of things for the Confederacy. The vignettes along the muddy roads headed southward are excellent, and say much about what was to come for the South over upcoming decades. I especially like the depiction of Varina as an ever more independent thinker and actor. It's hard to imagine that the marriage to a repressed martinet like Jefferson was one of much joy. And over time nearly all their children die. Varina emerges as a woman who can stand apart from her world, evaluate it, see it for what it is, and maintain a dignity and an integrity. I came away liking this woman, perhaps respect would be a better word. And as a longtime student of the Civil War and its aftermath in Dixie, I found her an excellent cipher for its people and their travails. Beautiful phraseology throughout. Great story.
Varina Howell was born into a Mississippi family whose economic status waxed and waned. At the age of 13, she was sent for one year to a girls' school in Philadelphia and returned home to be tutored by a lawyer/judge living in a cabin on her family's homestead. Judge Winchester instilled in Varina a life-long love of books and trained her in both Greek and Latin for a life of the mind through the study of history, philosophy, poetry and mathematics. As "spinsterhood" approached, at the "ripe old age" of 18, Varina was married off to the widower Jefferson Davis, over twenty years her senior and still eight years in mourning for his first wife. Varina later noted, "Back then, a good marriage did not require love: a good marriage meant security." She planned to settle on the Davis Mississippi plantation, but her husband chose a political career as a member of the Federal House, Senate and finally Secretary of War. The couple lived in Washington, DC for over 15 years where Varina, because of her wit, charm and education, became friend and hostess to Presidents and Congressmen of the day. After the Mexican American War, she refused to join her war-hero husband back in DC until he changed his will to make her the beneficiary of his estate. She finally won her cause. When the Civil War began and her husband became the first and last President of the Confederacy, she reluctantly moved with their children to the Grey House in Richmond. She loathed Richmond and was never accepted by the local high society. She viewed slavery as the "strangeness of owning people" since she treated "help" like members of her family. She believed that the South was unprepared for conflict and queried of the Confederacy, "Is it self-government or self-immolation we are testing?" As Richmond burned, she fled with her children and a few loyal servants toward Florida and ultimately planned an escape to Cuba. It was not meant to be: Jefferson was captured and later imprisoned near DC for two years and she was "imprisoned" for a year in Savannah. After the war, she lived mainly apart from her husband in Europe and with friends throughout the South. Upon his death, she completed his memoirs. She supported herself in New York City by writing articles for the New York World. She befriended Julia Grant, wife of Ulysses Grant, and the women were often seen in public to promote further reconciliation within a healing nation. Varina openly asserted, "The right side won."Frazier is a master wordsmith. He unwinds Varina's life backwards, from the end of her life forward, primarily using fictional conversation. Frazier's prose captures not only the lushness and false "civility" of the slave-propelled agricultural economy of the Antebellum South, but also the ravaged landscape and desperate population after Sherman's march to the sea. Even better are Frazier's delicate forays into the psyches of post-war Jefferson and Varina. The first reveals a delusional, old man failing both mentally and physically quite emotionally detached from his wife of almost fifty years. The other is a person with a will of steel who fulfills her obligations, mourns the death of her children and creates a new life. She wrote, "It is a frightful thing to drop out of one's place in the world and never find it again.." Thanks to a gifted author, the reader becomes acquainted with an important American feminist who was, in many ways, ahead of her time.
This book was a true testament of what a man I never knew anything about was really like. Jefferson Davis. It was an interesting story of a very unusual marriage during one of the worst times in our country's history. And the courage Varina had in taking care of her own. She was a woman way ahead of her time and never failed to speak her mind and question what she did not understand. She never looked back, always to the future and took the good, bad and ugly in her stride. Good read although written in a different mode. If you like history and fiction combined you will definitely enjoy this book.
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