Cold Mountain
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Winner of the 1997 National Book Award
A New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
Charles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a place where savagery coexists with splendour and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. 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.
Winner of the 1997 National Book Award
A New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
Charles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a place where savagery coexists with splendour and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. 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.
Journal Entry 2 by Minerva101 at Hillhurst-Sunnyside Community Center in Calgary, Alberta Canada on Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (11/10/2010 UTC) at Hillhurst-Sunnyside Community Center in Calgary, Alberta Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
This book has been released for the E-less Release Challenge November 2010
I left this book on the book exchange shelf and managed to 'catch' myself a couple of other bookcrossing books that have been there for a while.
I hope whoever chooses this book enjoys it!
I left this book on the book exchange shelf and managed to 'catch' myself a couple of other bookcrossing books that have been there for a while.
I hope whoever chooses this book enjoys it!
This was a great book, very difficult to put down. I did not know much at all about the Civil War and how much everyone suffered, whether they were fighting or waiting at home. I still am amazed at how hardworking Ruby was, and how she never faltered. Could someone carry on like that,indefinitely, in the real world, under those conditions?
