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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor. 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, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn 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 American Odyssey--hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
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"Having received this as a gift when it was first published I took it on business trip not sure what to make of it. After a few pages I was hooked. Frazier has some unconventional traits in his writing which may have kept this from the "Big six" but his characters; elegant, often moving descriptions of relationships in the romantic, familial and friendship areas' and his dedication to detail in the vivid descriptions of civil war battles scenes make this a novel worthy of reading for anyone interested in the Civil War. Frazier does an exemplary job of the battle scenes, but perhaps shines most in his descriptions and examinations of the home front where conflict, angst and tension were more subtle but often more evident than at the front. A definire recommended "to read" for those who enjoy romance and Civil War history set in an out of the way locale."
— Kevin (4 out of 5 stars)
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“A Whitman-esque foray into America: into its hugeness, its freshness, its scope, and its soul.”
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“An astonishing debut…A genuinely romantic saga that attains the status of literature.”
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“As close to a masterpiece as American writing is going to come these days.”
— Raleigh News and Observer -
“Charles Frazier’s feeling for the Southern landscape is reverential and beautifully composed. He has written an astonishing first novel.”
— New York Review of Books
Awards
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A #1 New York Times bestseller
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Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction
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A 1998 Book Sense Book of the Year
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A 1998 ALA Notable Book for Fiction
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A #1 USA Today bestseller
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A 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
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Winner of Audie Awards, 1999
Cold Mountain Listener Reviews
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" A sad love story. Love the author's narrative. "
— Padhmaja, 2/19/2014 -
" I loved this book for it's detailed descriptions. Sometimes this can bog a book down, but I felt it brought this one to life. It relaxed me to read it. I read it 15 years ago, and I can still picture the scenes in my mind. "
— Amy, 2/7/2014 -
" I read this years ago, so I'm not sure if I would have given it 1 or 2 stars. I do remember putting the book in a get rid of box, thinking it was lame. I liked the movie; mostly because of the actors, cinematography, and the music. "
— Maria, 1/28/2014 -
" This is my favorite modern novel. "
— Carolyn, 1/27/2014 -
" I'm a sucker for a blue cover "
— Cathy, 1/27/2014 -
" I had this book for years before I finally read it. It took me a half an hour to recover after I was finished. "
— Pointypartyhat, 1/20/2014 -
" Ok.... I gave it my best, twice. The description is up my alley so to speak. However, I could not get into this book. It may be the timing. On this note, I did enjoyed the movie. "
— Hillary, 1/16/2014 -
" A compelling story about how war (in Frazier's story the Civil War) effects everyone! "
— Jeanne, 12/23/2013 -
" This book was thought provoking and disturbing at the same time. It reminded me of The Odyssey. "
— Heidi, 12/14/2013 -
" It's beautiful and haunting and leaves a kind of hopeful sadness in your soul. "
— Kayla, 12/2/2013 -
" Super boring. AWful read. Very hard to get through "
— Jiill, 10/31/2013 -
" Wonderful prose. Great discussion of place, loss, redemption, and love. "
— Breeann, 8/16/2013 -
" Really like this ,the location it's set in is pretty. Nice also "
— Verna, 8/1/2013 -
" So much better than the movie, which concentrates on the romantic involvement between two characters. In the book, the romance is only a part of the survival story. "
— Chris, 2/28/2013 -
" Very good book . Author did a good job of keeping thing moving "
— Jerry, 2/13/2013 -
" It was a bit slow at first, but that's my only complaint. Beautifully written. It's one of those books that you are glad aren't short so you can savor it. "
— Sarah, 9/15/2012 -
" Uh, Nicole Kidman was not Ada, Renee Zellweger was not Ruby, and this book puts the movie by the same title to shame. "
— doug, 8/4/2012 -
" Loved it. North Carolina, Civil War historical fiction. "
— Babs, 12/29/2011 -
" I really like this authors writing style. He wrote a very unique adventure. "
— Sandy, 11/20/2011 -
" In spite of a wholly unsatisfactory ending, a lyrical story about war and people and what they endure. Set during the Civil War, it tells the tale of Ada and Ruby and Inman in 1864. "
— Debra, 9/20/2011 -
" Boring. Boring, boring boring. I have this thing where I have to finish a book once I start it, or else I would have just stopped reading this one in the middle. So finishing it was like a chore and the ending was not worth the slog. "
— Sarah, 6/29/2011 -
" A very well written tale of a fictional legend in the time before and after the Civil War. I listened to this on audio. The reader was good, but the book droned on too long. A shorter version would have gotten 4 stars. "
— Jean, 6/28/2011 -
" I know this book was an award winner so some people obviously liked it. However, I could not finish it. The main reason was the lack of quotation marks. It seemed like the lack of those made everything just run together. "
— David, 6/7/2011 -
" What an excellent adventure! Glad I got to know Will. I'll cherish him a long time. "
— Friendofcash, 6/4/2011 -
" Interesting story about the removal of the Cherokee from the Carolinas.<br/> "
— Barb, 5/27/2011 -
" Sorry. I liked Cold Mountain, but I only got through about a third of this one. Life is too short to be bored out of my mind. Started out a little like Lonesome Dove, which I loved, so I had high hopes, but they were quickly dashed. "
— Marilou, 5/25/2011 -
" download from the jax public library(overdrive)and enjoy it very much. It seems this book is for the men and the Cold Mountain book is for the woman. "
— Francis, 5/22/2011 -
" I loved this. It's a well-researched look at an often misunderstood world. I cried so much while reading it that Josh threatened to confiscate it. "
— Sarah, 5/12/2011 -
" Audio Book. The story of William Cooper who was sold as an indentured servant by his aunt and uncle when he was 12 to run a trading post on the Cherokee Nation. He becomes a member of the Cherokee Nation and buys the trading post after the owner encount "
— Jake, 5/6/2011 -
" This book is one of my most favorite reads. This author weaves an amazing tapestry of words. He hooks you and puts you in a trance of sorts. You can picture his story in your head to every last detail. Amazing! "
— Michelle, 5/5/2011 -
" This is my favorite book! I read it several times a year and love it more each time. "
— Tyler, 5/1/2011
About Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier is the author of several books, including Cold Mountain, which won the National Book Award in 1997 and was made into an Academy-Award winning film. His second novel, Thirteen Moons, was a New York Times bestseller and named a best book of the year by the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at North Carolina State University.