In 1997, Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain made
publishing history when it sailed to 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, the beloved American epic returns, reissued by
Grove Press to coincide with the publication of Frazier’s
eagerly-anticipated second novel, Thirteen Moons. Sorely wounded
and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a
Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in
the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. 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, the
intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and
learning 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 odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically
lovely, and keenly moving.
關於作者:
Charles Frazier grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. He
now lives in Raleigh with his wife and daughter, where they raise
horses. Cold Mountain, his first novel, was nominated for a
National Book Award. --This text refers to an out of print or
unavailable edition of this title.