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Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier
Narrated by: Charles Frazier
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Summary
 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.

(P)1998 Random House Audio©1997 Charles Frazier Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction War

Critic Reviews

Magnificent . . . this wonderful novel presents the terrible, discordant reality of life in a war. Profoundly moving, it raises all the big questions
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
A poetic account of hardship, violence and longing ... From a simple framework of alternating narratives, Frazier builds up a richly detailed portrayal of a vanished world
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A great story made to feel real through the language of the author.

The descriptions of the environment of the places where the story takes place are beautifully written.

A great story about a troubled time in America.

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The narrator, author Charles Frasier, is simply superb as the voice of this story. His unique use of grammar, at least to these ears, was beautiful, almost lyrical. Bravo.

Engaging, engrossing, unique

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A wonderfully written story that was a pleasure to listen to. Story was nicely interwoven with the main characters and felt like I was living back in that time and could picture it easily.

Delightful descriptions

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