Cold Mountain: 20th Anniversary Edition - Softcover

Frazier, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802126758 ISBN 13: 9780802126757

Publisher: Grove Press, 2017

Synopsis

A rare and extraordinary book . . . heart-stopping . . . spellbinding.” San Francisco Chronicle

A page turner that attains the status of literature.” Newsweek

Finely drawn, full of dark beauty and presentiment.” New Yorker

An astonishing first novel.” New York Review of Books

Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history in 1997 when it stood at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now reissued for its twentieth year, this extraordinary tale of a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land. Adapted into an Oscar nominated movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and a 2015 opera co-commissioned between Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, Cold Mountain portrays an era that continues to speak eloquently to our time.

A haunting, beautifully written tale.” USA Today

Strikingly beautiful.” Newsday

A richly rewarding first novel . . . Wonderfully convincing, finely detailed.” Christian Science Monitor

About this title

Review:

The hero of Charles Frazier's beautifully written and deeply-imagined first novel is Inman, a disillusioned Confederate soldier who has failed to die as expected after being seriously wounded in battle during the last days of the Civil War. Rather than waiting to be redeployed to the front, the soul-sick Inman deserts, and embarks on a dangerous and lonely odyssey through the devastated South, heading home to North Carolina, and seeking only to be reunited with his beloved, Ada, who has herself been struggling to maintain the family farm she inherited. Cold Mountain is an unforgettable addition to the literature of one of the most important and transformational periods in American history.

From the Publisher:

"... 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

"A memorable book."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"It seems possible to never want to read another book, so wonderful is this one. Cold Mountain is one of the great accomplishments in American literature."
-- Rick Bass

"It's simply a miracle."
-- Larry Brown, author of Joe

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0802126758
• ISBN 13: 9780802126757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464