Varina
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 […]
Nightwoods : a Novel
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani: …suspenseful…conjures the untamed land of southern Appalachia with a native's unsparing love and wary respect…In recounting the slow, sometimes apprehensive circling of these characters around one another, Mr. Frazier displays a keen psychological understanding of their fears and desires, and their driving impulse to keep themselves safe, at […]
Cold Mountain
Thirteen Moons
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. When Frazier's debut Cold Mountain blossomed into a National Book Award?winning bestseller with four million copies in print, expectations for the follow-up rose almost immediately. A decade later, the good news is that Frazier's storytelling prowess doesn't falter in this sophomore effort, a bountiful literary panorama again set primarily in […]