Cold Mountain
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Synopsis from B&N
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.
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.
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.
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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On the way to weebly to be read by someone in her book group.
Please return to Cassiopaeia when finished.
On the way to weebly to be read by someone in her book group.
Please return to Cassiopaeia when finished.
Journal Entry 3 by weebly from Hartwell, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Thanks for the book loan. I am giving this to one of the members of our WI book group.
Journal Entry 4 by weebly at By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, January 8, 2009
Released 15 yrs ago (1/8/2009 UTC) at By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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Returned to me to post home - thanks so much for the loan.
Returned to me to post home - thanks so much for the loan.
Arrived safely in the post today, many thanks weebly.
There was a beautiful balance in this book not only in the narrative itself telling of the re-converging lives of Ada and Inman but between the beauty of the prose and the era it evoked. I was enthralled at the lyricism on each page, the beauty and flow of the sentences and the phrasing, while depicting the devastation of war and the hardships of life in this era, war or no war. I really was almost unable to put this book down, but when I did the essence of it stayed with me allowing me to cherish it all the more.There are so many passages that were quotable from this book, that it would take too long to select my favourites. But one small simple sentence towards the end really had an impact on me. It says so much about sorrow, pain and grief, then and now, that I returned to it to read it again.
“God lays the unbearable on you and then takes some back.”
My first 10 star read this year.
Given to a friend.
