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Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the front during the Civil War to return to his prewar sweetheart, Ada, who desperately works to revive a struggling farm.

"...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 19th-century America, near the end of the Civil War....[A] memorable book."

James Polk, New York Times Book Review, 07/13/1997

"As the lovers' reunion approaches, both are aware of their internal (and external) transformations, irrevocable changes that reflect those of the country in which they live. Their stories...are very different. Inman's is emphatically picaresque, a progression of grotesque and fantastic encounters reminiscent of Fielding or Richardson...Ada's chapters...form a more contemporary tale, the exploration of a woman's psychological development....Readers impatient with the relentless linearity of Inman's progress will find respite in Ada's concentric growth, and vice versa....[A]n exciting work of fiction....'Cold Mountain' delights, above all, as an exceedingly free natural history, in which Frazier's characters learn and live by their surroundings."

Claire Messud, Washington Post Book World, 07/06/1997

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