- United States in fiction, National Book Award Winner, Fiction, History
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-great grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of 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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Frazier
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 449
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Random House Audio, Vintage Canada
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- German, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780679309451
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