In 1997, Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now, the beloved American epic returns, reissued by Grove Press to coincide with the publication of Frazier’s … Frazier’s eagerly-anticipated second novel, Thirteen Moons. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. 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.
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This is one of my all-time favorites and Charles Frazier is one of my most admired writers. He is masterful especially of characters and nature
Terrific. I love all of Charles Frazier’s book. Definitely recommend all of them.
On a sentence-by-sentence basis, this is one of the most beautiful novels I’ve ever read. And it’s from a fellow North Carolinian!
I read this many years ago. They made a very good movie based on this book. Excellent; well-written.
Great historical fiction
I reread this book ever couple of years just for the beauty of the words and the sentence structure. It sings. A wonderful story about a critical time in our history. Not to be missed.
Surprising and sad ending
This is close to one of the greatest books that I have ever read. The character Inman is the Odysseus of literature for the 21st Century. His encounters with the people on his travels home are truly amazing. Frazier does such a great job of describing people and places. One could almost believe that he had been the young man escaping the hospital …
I love the author’s descriptive style of writing. I could immerse myself in the world he was writing about..
This is my favorite book.
I would be hard pressed to find something I didn’t like about this novel. Inman’s journey back to Cold Mountain rang very deeply in me His hardships along the way, his longing, and his perseverance that made him do unthinkable things to survive. At the same time all the detail that went into Ada’s life on Cold Mountain and how it transformed …
I absolutely loved it!! It is my favorite since Grapes of Wrath. I want everyone to read this!
Love his style of writing.
Book on CD, read by author, not performed by an artist.
Interesting vignettes of lives during the Civil War in the south. Sometimes stories within stories. Because it was read rather than performed, at times it droned on and on and my mind would wander. But I can understand why it was made in to a movie.
I now know why this book won so many awards; it is great American literature. Not for the impatient reader, this book takes patience and time to savor the beautiful descriptions of landscape, flora and fauna. Couragious, strong characters–Ada, Ruby, Inman, Stobrod, the goatwoman–power the narrative through the horrors of the Civil War, a …
It’s always good to rehash an old classic like the Odyssey set in the American Civil War. Loved it from beginning to end and eventually saw the movie which was a decent rendition of the book. Charles Frasier has a way with a story with a Smokey Mountain twist and the realism of the brutality of the times was not glossed over in any way. This …
One of my favorite books. Great characters and use of language. Will leave you looking for corn pone.
Very well written. Language used during 1800s. Romantic. Poignant. Tear jerker.
Imaginative story, with wonderful characters you’re guaranteed to love. Riveting, heartbreaking, can’t-put-down.