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Description for Cold Mountain
Paperback. Clean copy
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Sceptre
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340680599
SKU
KEX0235009
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier lives in North Carolina, where this novel is set, and where he and his wife have been developing a horse farm for the last five years. He has taught in universities, written travel books and had one short story published. COLD MOUNTAIN, his first novel, is based on stories of his ancestors' experiences during the Civil War, handed ... Read more
Reviews for Cold Mountain
'A beautiful book written in exquisite prose'
Kate Atkinson 'A remarkable first novel, a romance of love, of friendship, of family, of land. Frazier has inhaled the spirit of the age and breathes it into the reader's being'
The Times 'Magnificent...this wonderful novel presents the terrible, discordant reality of life in a ... Read more
Kate Atkinson 'A remarkable first novel, a romance of love, of friendship, of family, of land. Frazier has inhaled the spirit of the age and breathes it into the reader's being'
The Times 'Magnificent...this wonderful novel presents the terrible, discordant reality of life in a ... Read more