One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory,Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure,a stirring story,and a luminous evocaion of a vanished America in all its savagery,solitude,and splendor.
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg,Inman,a Confederate soldier,decidet to walk backto 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 survieve in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.As it interweaves their.Cold Mountain asserts itself as authentic American Odyssey-hugely powerfrl,majestically lovely,and keenly moving.
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