{"title":"Biographical","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"varina-paperback","title":"Varina - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Frazier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of \u003cem\u003eCold Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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-culpable regardless of her intentions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond, Virginia, and travel south on their own, now fugitives with \"bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntimate in its detailed observations of one woman's tragic life, and epic in its scope and power, \u003cem\u003eVarina \u003c\/em\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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-culpable regardless of her intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond, Virginia, and travel south on their own, now fugitives with \"bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntimate in its detailed observations of one woman's tragic life, and epic in its scope and power, \u003cem\u003eVarina\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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. 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In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. 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Never had history been more vibrant, its voices more resonating, its images more gripping. On this first trip to Europe, I felt myself a pilgrim: To me, even secular places such as museums and ruins were imbued with the sacred. Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, religious and social history--I was swept away with all of it, wanting to read more, to learn languages, to fill my mind with rich, glorious, long-established culture wrought by human desire, daring, and faith. I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart. My imagination exploded with the gaiety of the Montmartre dancers at Moulin de la Galette, the laborer whose last breath in his flattened chest was taken under the weight of a stone fallen from the Duomo under construction in Florence, the apprentice who cut himself preparing glass for the jeweled windows of Sainte Chapelle, the sweating quarry worker aching behind his crowbar at Carrara to release a marble that would become the \u003ci\u003ePietà.\u003c\/i\u003e In a fashion I couldn't imagine then, I have been true to this pledge. I have brought to life the daughter of the Dutch painter Vermeer who secretly yearned to paint the Delft she loved. I've given voice to the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, raped at seventeen by her painting teacher, the first woman to paint large scale figures from history and scripture previously reserved for men. On my own continent, I've entered deep British Columbian forests with Emily Carr, whose love for native people took her to places proper white women didn't go. My imagination has followed Modigliani's daughter around Paris searching for shreds of information about the father she never knew. I've imagined myself a poor wetnurse, bereaved of her own baby so that a rich woman, Berthe Morisot, might paint. I've taken my seventeenth century Tuscan shoemaker to Rome to have his longed-for religious experience under the Sistine ceiling. I've followed Renoir's models to cabarets and boat races, to war and elopement, to the Folies-Bergère and luncheons by the Seine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow some facts as to how I arrived there: After graduating from San Diego State University, I taught high school English in San Diego beginning in 1969 and retired in 2000 after a 30-year career. Concurrently, I began writing features for newspapers and magazines in 1980, taking up subjects in art and travel, and publishing 250 articles. I ventured into fiction in 1988 with \u003ci\u003eWhat Love Sees\u003c\/i\u003e, a biographical novel of a woman's unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness. The book was made into a CBS television movie starring Richard Thomas and Annabeth Gish. My short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Confrontation, Alaska Quarterly Review, Manoa, Connecticut Review, Calyx, Crescent Review, So To Speak \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy art-related fiction, products of my pledge on Pont Neuf: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirl in Hyacinth Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, 1999, and a Hallmark Hall of Fame production in 2003, tracing an alleged Vermeer painting through the centuries revealing its influence on those who possessed it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Passion of Artemisia\u003c\/i\u003e, 2002, disclosing the inner life of Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian Baroque painter who empowered her female heroines with her own courage. \u003ci\u003eThe Forest Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, 2004, following the rebel Canadian painter, Emily Carr, seeking the spiritual content of her beloved British Columbia by painting its wild landscape and its native totemic carvings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2005, stories revealing Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters from points of view of people who knew them, and showing that ordinary people can have profound encounters with art. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLuncheon of the Boating Party\u003c\/i\u003e, 2007, illuminating the vibrant, explosive Parisian world of \u003ci\u003ela vie moderne\u003c\/i\u003e surrounding Renoir as he creates his masterwork depicting the French art of living.\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eSelected awards: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Best Sellers: Girl in Hyacinth Blue, The Passion of Artemisia, Luncheon of the Boating Party. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Sense Pick, \u003ci\u003eLuncheon of the Boating Party\u003c\/i\u003e, 2007. \u003cbr\u003eBook Sense Year's Favorites, for \u003ci\u003eThe Passion of Artemisia\u003c\/i\u003e, 2002. \u003cbr\u003eBook Sense Book of the Year Finalist, \u003ci\u003eGirl in Hyacinth Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, 1999. \u003cbr\u003eInternational Dublin Literary Award, Nominee, for \u003ci\u003eGirl in Hyacinth Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, 2001. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent Publisher Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Storyteller of the Year, for \u003ci\u003eGirl in Hyacinth Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, 1999. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword Magazine's\u003c\/i\u003e Best Novel of the Year, for Girl in Hyacinth Blue,1999. \u003cbr\u003eSan Diego Book Awards' Theodor Geisel Award and Best Novel of the Year, 1999, for \u003ci\u003eGirl\u003c\/i\u003e; 2002 for \u003ci\u003eArtemisia\u003c\/i\u003e, and 2005 for \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy work has been translated into twenty-five languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, what have I learned from all of this? That entering the mind and heart of painters has taught me to see, and to be more appreciative of the beauties of the visible world. That I can agree with Renoir when he said, \"I believe that I am nearer to God by being humble before his splendor (Nature).\" That people are hungry for real lives behind the paintings. That readers' lives have been enriched, their sensibilities sharpened, even their goals for their own creative endeavors given higher priorities in their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd especially this: Thanks to art, instead of seeing only one world and time period, our own, we see it multiplied and can peer into other times, other worlds which offer windows to other lives. \u003cb\u003eEach time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.\u003c\/b\u003e Consider this: Where there is no imagination of others' lives, there is no human connection. 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