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Jan 1, 2001 · 243,351 ratings6,611 reviews. Cold Mountain is a novel about a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's end. At once a love story & a harrowing account of one man’s long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a new talent in American literature.
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Jun 1, 1997 · COLD MOUNTAIN. by Charles Frazier ‧RELEASE DATE: June 1, 1997. bookshelf. shop now. amazon bookshop. A grim story about a tough, resourceful Southern family in the Civil War is somewhat submerged by the weight of lyrical detail piled on the tale, and by the slow pace of the telling.
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Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1] It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the story shares several similarities with ...
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Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is the most impressive and enthralling first novel I have read in a long time. It is a magnetic story, ambitious in scope, with richly developed characters and beautiful evocations of landscape.
Cold Mountain won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1997. In 2003, it was adapted into an Oscar-winning film directed by Anthony Minghella. Explore the full book summary, an in-depth character analysis of Inman, and explanations of important quotes from Cold Mountain.
Jan 1, 1997 · Based on 6 reviews. Rave. Positive. Mixed. Pan. What The Reviewers Say. Rave James Polk, The New York Times Book Review. For a first novelist, in fact for any novelist, Charles Frazier has taken on a daunting task — and has done extraordinarily well by it.
The Guardian. Cold Mountain, which takes its title from a peak in the Great Balsam Mountains of Northern Carolina, certainly carries its author's knowledge of a particular area. But natural description is there to follow the two main characters' eyes and minds ...
