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Cold Mountainby Charles Frazier
AwardsWinner of the 1997 National Book Award
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Winner of the 1997 National Book Award A New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year Charles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a place where savagery coexists with splendour and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. Review:"Novelists are never in short supply. Natural-born storytellers come along only rarely. Charles Frazier joins the ranks of that elite cadre on the first page of his astonishing debut." Newsweek Review:"Charles Frazier's first novel is a rare and extraordinary book, a Civil War novel concerned less with battlefields than with the landscape of the human soul." San Francisco Chronicle Review:"Rich in evocative physical detail and timeless human insight....In a leisurely, literate narrative, Frazier shows how lives of soldiers and of civilians alike deepen and are transformed as a direct consequence of the war's tragedy." Publishers Weekly Review:"Charles Frazier has taken on a daunting task — and has done extraordinarily well by it....A Whitmanesque foray into America; into its hugeness, its freshness, its scope and its soul....Such a memorable book." The New York Times Book Review Review:"Charles Frazier may be picking the coins out of Cormac McCarthy's pockets, but my God what a novel he has made from them....Despite its stylistic echoes, Cold Mountain is an intensely moving novel, a spare but eloquent exegesis on love and war. The story of Inman and Ada will remain with you long after the oil lamp is extinguished." Jonathan Miles, Salon.com Review:"A great read — a stirring Civil War tale told with...epic sweep...loaded with vivid historical detail." People Review:"Cold Mountain is a heartbreakingly beautiful story, elegantly told and utterly convincing down to the last haunting detail." John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Review:"A heightened, thrilling love story....Perhaps the most eloquent writing about the awful drudgery and desperation of the Civil War since Thomas Keneally's Confederates....A great read." John Doyle, The Globe and Mail Review:"A grim story...somewhat submerged by the weight of lyrical detail piled on the tale, and by the slow pace of the telling....A promising but overlong, uneven debut." Kirkus Reviews Review:"Cold Mountain is the best Civil War novel since Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels. Written in a style equal to that of Shelby Foote, this novel deserves any and all prizes that might be lying about." Kaye Gibbons Review:"This novel is so magnificent — in every conceivable aspect, and others previously unimagined — that it has occurred to me that the shadow of this book, and the joy I received in reading it, will fall over every other book I ever read. It seems even possible to never want to read another book, so wonderful is this one. Cold Mountain is one of the great accomplishments in American literature." Rick Bass Review:"Charles Frazier's novel is at once spare and eloquent, a panorama that the author stills long enough to make a portrait — a very evocative portrait of Inman, a soldier who is trying to escape a ruined world. Interspersed with so many moments of sadness, the many moments of compassion seem entirely convincing and are very affecting..." Ann Beattie About the AuthorCharles 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, his first novel, was nominated for a National Book Award. From the Trade Paperback edition. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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