Cold Mountain: A Novel

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Dec 1, 2007 - Fiction - 366 pages

A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People

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 journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign.

Meanwhile, 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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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
27
Section 3
69
Section 4
92
Section 5
111
Section 6
133
Section 7
147
Section 8
175
Section 13
298
Section 14
323
Section 15
345
Section 16
357
Section 17
370
Section 18
391
Section 19
398
Section 20
407

Section 9
203
Section 10
236
Section 11
260
Section 12
284
Section 21
435
Section 22
446
Section 23
453
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Page 17 - ... through which the glittering brook which watered the meadows ran rapidly down, dashing and roaring over high rocky steps. Continued yet ascending until I gained the top of an elevated rocky ridge, when appeared before me a gap or opening between other yet more lofty ascents, through which continued as the rough rocky road led me, close by the winding banks of a large rapid brook, which at length turning...

About the author (2007)

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 is his first novel. His second, Thirteen Moons, will be published by Random House on October 3rd, 2006.

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