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Cold Mountain

By Charles Frazier

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| Hardcover | 9780871136794

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Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature.

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Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature.

Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm, with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered.

Charles Frazier reveals marked insight into man's relationship to the land and the dangers of solitude. He also shares with the great nineteenth-century novelists a keen observation of a society undergoing change. Cold Mountain re-creates a world gone by that speaks eloquently to our time.

Charles Frazier grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. He now lives in Raleigh with his wife and daughter, where they raise horses. Cold Mountain is his first novel.

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  • Cold Mountain

    Inman was not expected to survive a horrific neck wound. Somehow, in dreadful conditions, he manages to care for himself but knowing that as soon he is fit enough to fight he will be sent straight back to the battlefields of Virginia, he resolves to ... (read full critics)

    bookgroup published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

  • The Long Voyage Home

    Inman, a Confederate soldier beset by flies drinking at the neck wound he sustained in the Petersburg campaign (1864), is in a hospital ward. He is desperate to get out of the war and back to his mountain home in western North Carolina. Aman born bli ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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    When fighting nature lets you come to terms with fighting against humans

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    fran_ces said on Sep 15, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Sandra Aguilera

    Cold Mountain as a novel, in my opinion, although I enjoy with the romantic and dramatic novels, I have found it quite slow and lack of action. The author makes you get involved in the story, and imagine the scene and situation, but I think it´s spends too much time explaining all the details.
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    Cold Mountain as a novel, in my opinion, although I enjoy with the romantic and dramatic novels, I have found it quite slow and lack of action. The author makes you get involved in the story, and imagine the scene and situation, but I think it´s spends too much time explaining all the details.
    Personally, I haven´t found it difficult to read, it has a quite affordable vocabulary, which makes the reading to be agile.

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    Rosemary Thwaite said on Feb 1, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • A very long journey back to his lover, Inman died when he finally reached his goal. Beautiful lines. Boring at times. A good war story.

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    harrypotpot said on Aug 17, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • A brilliant first novel! It has now been made into a film which i have yet to see, do hope it is as good as the book.

    Yes it is, very well cast as well. Saw the film on Sky Italia August 05, good timing as I always prefer to read the book first if possible.

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    Lindyloumac said on Sep 8, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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