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 | Cold Mountain "Cold Mountain is a heartbreakingly beautiful story, elegantly told and utterly convincing down to the last haunting detail." --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
About the Book
Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. 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, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn 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 American Odyssey--hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
"A rare and extraordinary book . . . Heart-stopping . . . Spellbinding."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Astonishing . . . a genuinely romantic saga that attains the status of literature." --Newsweek
About the Author Charles Frazier has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at North Carolina State University.ÊÊHe lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter, where they raise horses.
About the Film Now a major motion picture from Miramax starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi, and Donald Sutherland, and written and directed by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient).