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Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier
Narrated by: Charles Frazier
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

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 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.©1997 Charles Frazier; (P)1998 Random House, Inc., Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Accolades & Awards

National Book Award
1997
Historical Historical Fiction History & Culture National Book Award Literary Fiction Heartfelt Genre Fiction World Literature Magic

Critic reviews

"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

"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 have ever read."—Rick Bass

"Lush, poetic, moving and artfully exciting—A heightened, thrilling love story—Perhaps the most eloquent writing about the awful drudgery and desperation of the Civil War since Thomas Keneally's Confederates—A great read."—John Doyle, The Globe and Mail

"Charles Frazier has taken on a daunting task — and has done extraordinarily well by it.... In prose filled with grace notes and trenchant asides, he has reset much of the Odyssey in 19-century America, near the end of the Civil War.... A Whitmanesque foray into America; into its hugeness, its freshness, its scope and its soul—Such a memorable book."—The New York Times Book Review

"A page-turner that attains the status of literature—Natural-born storytellers come along only rarely. Charles Frazier joins the ranks of that elite cadre on the first page of his astonishing debut."—Newsweek

"A rare and extraordinary book—Heart-stopping—Spellbinding."—San Francisco Chronicle

"A great read — a stirring Civil War tale told with...epic sweep...loaded with vivid historical detail."—People
Beautiful Writing • Vivid Imagery • Authentic Southern Accent • Historical Authenticity • Emotional Depth

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.....I was tormented by the ending and the fact that I was done reading the book made me so sad.........it is one of those rare and beautiful books that touches you deep in your soul and stays in your thoughts for a lifetime. Inman and Ada were truly a couple that makes romance and love and living life such a true touching and heartbreaking experience. I found myself laughing one minute and yelling out in shock and anger the next minute....the book left me in awe and breathless.....this will be a story that will live long in my mind and heart. Absolutely being placed in my 'Top 10' list.....

This book broke my heart when it ended.....

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Cold Mountain is not my favorite historical fiction novel, but I was able to finish it.

Good.

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There are some books in your life that qualify as "a masterpiece", these are stories that are written in a way that you will never forget and if someone asks you, what were your all-time favorite books, immediately you say, Cold Mountain, The Boys in the Boat, The Prince of Tides, Deep River, Indianapolis and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Then they ask you why, and you say, because they made me feel every emotion possible and I didn't want them to end. They are the ones that you feel grateful the author wrote them and you feel even more blessed to have taken the time to pick them up to read. My life is better for having read these.... That describes “a masterpiece". Charles Frazier read this Audible book and I will never forget it. One of the most awesome audible reads I have experienced. I had previously watched the movie and envisioning Ruby, Ada and Inman as their characters brought so much depth that will live on in my memory. I plan on re-reading this one many times over. I thank you Charles Frazier, thank you.

An Masterpiece-Charles narration was awesome!

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Excellent and detailed book, great narrator, medium paced read. Many parts, very eazy to folllow.

Cold Mountain heats it up!

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A beautiful tale of the lives of two very different women from two vastly different class backgrounds. The relationship that was forged through the years of the American Civil War and far beyond by these two women. The celebration of the friendship and the bond for each other. Their trials and tribulations of their loves found, and loves lost.

A tale of love and hope eternal .

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