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Cold Mountain: Summary and book reviews of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, plus links to an excerpt from Cold Mountain and a biography of Charles Frazier.

Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
Hardcover: Jun 1997,
356 pages.
Paperback: Aug 1998,
449 pages.

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Critics' Opinion:   good
Readers' Rating:  Four Stars
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BOOK SUMMARY

A magnificent love story, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his pre-war 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 in which they now live.

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Good  Publisher's Weekly
Rich in evocative physical detail and timeless human insight.

Good  San Francisco Chronicle
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.

Author Blurb  John Berendt
Cold Mountain is a heartbreakingly beautiful story, elegantly told and utterly convincing down to the last haunting detail.

Author Blurb  Willie Morris
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. Though set in an earlier time, it is contemporary in the profoundest sense, with resonance of A Farewell to Arms.

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Rated 5 of 5 of 5 by mandi
awsome
This book is great! I am reading it for English class and it is the first book so far that I really like! The plot it great kinda confusing but if you keep reading it all falls into place. The book is great I can't wait to see the movie!



Rated 5 of 5 of 5 by Brooke
Cold Mountain
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This book was just incredible! It is so detailed and has a great storyline!

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