Cold mountain
by Charles Frazier
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Cold Mountain is an 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 great-great grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of 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 the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered.
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United States in fiction, National Book Award Winner, Fiction, History, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Open Library Staff Picks, award:national_book_award=fiction, Love stories, award:national_book_award=1997, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Military deserters, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fictionPlaces
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Cold mountain: a novel
1998, Vintage Books
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Cold mountain: a novel
1998, Vintage Canada
in English
- 1st Vintage Canada ed.
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Map of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains on endpapers.
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"At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring."
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