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.
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - /5
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Summary
I know this book gets a lot of attention, but it couldn't really keep MY attention. It's slow and somewhat boring. We follow a Confederate soldier (deserter) who walks home with the only intention of meeting up with the love of his life. The book goes back and forth between the soldier and the young woman. Of course, her life was a struggle during the war. She makes changes and needs to be resourceful. During his journey back home, he faces many challenges. While the walk home is not very exciting, it probably is realistic. War is treacherous - that war in particular - was difficult, especially for Confederate soldiers who didn't believe in the cause in the first place.
Violence:
It's about a war, you're bound to get more information than you intended.