
Charles Frazier has written an astonishing novel centered on the illustrious wife of Jefferson Davis, as it were the first lady of the Confederacy. As with much of Frazier's writing, it is difficult to find an awkward sentence or phrase here. He continues to be one of the great poetic chroniclers of the Upper South. The Clinch Mountains, the Blue Ridge and the Great Smokies belong to him and fellow denizens thereof like the Virginia poet Charles Wright, and the always...
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