Cold Mountain

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ut.**—-Kaye Gibbons
"This novel is so magnificent—^in every conceivable aspect, and others previously unimagined—^that it has occurred to me that the shadow of this book, and the joy I received in reading it, will fall over every other book I ever read. It seems even possible to never want to read another book, so wonderful is this one. Cold Mountain is one of the great accomplishments in American
literature."—Rick Bass
"Charles Frazier's novel is at once spare and eloquent, a panorama that the
author stills long enough to make a portrait—a very evocative portrait of Inman, a soldier who is trying to escape a ruined world. Interspersed with so many moments of sadness, the many moments of compassion seem entirely convincing and are very affecting; when Ada 'wanted to tell him how she had
come to be what she was,' the understatement—as it is so often in Cold Mountain—is almost shattering. And then comes the ending."—^Ann Beattie... Tovább

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ThefSttef
deserves any andku pvusHE


ut.**—-Kaye Gibbons
"This novel is so magnificent—^in every conceivable aspect, and others previously unimagined—^that it has occurred to me that the shadow of this book, and the joy I received in reading it, will fall over every other book I ever read. It seems even possible to never want to read another book, so wonderful is this one. Cold Mountain is one of the great accomplishments in American
literature."—Rick Bass
"Charles Frazier's novel is at once spare and eloquent, a panorama that the
author stills long enough to make a portrait—a very evocative portrait of Inman, a soldier who is trying to escape a ruined world. Interspersed with so many moments of sadness, the many moments of compassion seem entirely convincing and are very affecting; when Ada 'wanted to tell him how she had
come to be what she was,' the understatement—as it is so often in Cold Mountain—is almost shattering. And then comes the ending."—^Ann Beattie
"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 oi A Farewell to Arms—^Willie Morris
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"This is one of the best books I've read in
a long time, and I cried when it was over.
It's simply a miracle." —larry brown
Cold Mountain is nn 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-greatgrandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the 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 die close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered.
Charles Frazier reveals marked insight into man's relationship to the land and the dangers of solitude. He also shares with the great nineteenth-century novelists a keen observation of a society undergoing change. Cold Mountain re-creates a world gone by that speaks eloquently to our time. Vissza