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| Cold Mountain | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Frazier
Publisher: Grove Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1509 reviews)
Sales Rank: 34135
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0802142842
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802142849
ASIN: 0802142842
Publication Date: August 31, 2006
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Product Description
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.
Amazon.com Review
This unabridged audio version of Cold Mountain, read by author Charles Frazier, deserves at least as much acclaim as the bestselling print edition, which won the National Book Award. The tale chronicles a Confederate army deserter's search for home and love in the last days of the Civil War. Much has been made of the story's homage to The Odyssey, the origins of which are found in an oral tradition. One can't help but hear echoes of Homer when listening to Frazier's soft, deliberate voice give life to his lyrical writing and to his understated, yet convincing rendering of the overwhelming events of war. Both Frazier's prose and reading are leisurely, recalling a slow foot pace. His delivery is uniquely suited to Innman's arduous, adventure-filled walk toward home and to the possibility of a reunion with Ada, the woman he loves. The author's reading does equal justice to Ada, who is being transformed by her struggle for survival on her father's farm. There is precious little dialogue, and Frazier makes no effort at acting out the characters. One small irritation in the production is a beeping noise at the end of each side. Another minor complaint is that the tapes don't have individual boxes, which was perhaps an attempt to make the overall package appear more booklike. The recording does, however, make deft use of two brief musical interludes. In a subtle twist, the fiddle music that opens the first cassette, when repeated as an accompaniment to the epilogue, carries a bittersweet and unexpected resonance. By all means, forgive Random House Audio the tiny glitches, pass over that slender abridged version, and take home the real thing. This audiocassette is a journey that will leave few listeners unchanged by the experience. (Running time: 14.5 hours, 12 cassettes) --Naomi J. Cohn
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 Left me cold November 8, 2008
I was hoping for so much more! The hype over the book and movie led me to believe this would be an incredible experience. But after trudging through mountains of adjectives describing cold weather and battle wounds, the story fell flat in the end...very unsatisfying for me.
 An incredible addition to the canon of modern American literature... October 26, 2008
This is one of the few books that I have ever read more than once. Frazier paints a realistic, engaging story of a man and a woman's journey through hell to be with each other. His vivid descriptions will keep you reading long after you should have put the book down and went to bed. I can completely identify with Inman's disillusionment with war, and his steadfastness to seek the one person that means something to him, despite the obstacles that nature, the war, and fate throw in has path. Unreservedly, this is one of the best books I have ever read. Skip the film, and read the book instead
More than just a 'heroe's quest' September 21, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I started reading this book four years ago, during winter break, and put it down fifty pages in, swearing that I would finish reading it as soon as projects, homework, and life let up. During the four years that I let the book sit, those fifty pages haunted me. I'd already seen the movie, knew how it would end up, more or less - but what I wanted to know was what Frazier said about it. What was the lesson about life, the aphorism I could pack up and take away with me at the story's end? When I finished reading it this time, I found it.
Some people say that this is just a regular old 'heroe's quest': man sets out on a journey to return to the woman he loves, and encounters a lot of obstacles and temptations (think: The Odyssey) along the way. And sure, Inman comes across as a hero; flawless, brave, repentant, ever-loving.
But the real hardships for him happen on the inside. His problem is not that he's being shot at during his journey home, his problem is that he himself has done shooting. Killed. That he himself has participated in the war machine, taken lives, broken some part of himself. The real question - for Inman at least - is how to recover his damaged soul. How can you love or be loved after you've done the unthinkable?
Dealing with that question, providing some sort of answer, consolation, hope, is what this story does best. If you've ever done something you think was irrevocably wrong, think you've ruined whatever chance at happiness you may have had, hurt your beloved, hurt yourself, wasted years: no matter what you've done, there is some sort of redemption for you. You can 'grieve endlessly for the loss of time and for the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own lost self,' but in the end you can overcome it,. you can find a purpose, you can become whole again. The most powerful message of the book, the one that makes this book worth reading, that might, if you're hurting, put you back on track, is this: 'People can be mended.'
Cold Mountain September 21, 2008
Beautifully poetic. You want to both nibble it slowly to make it last and swallow it whole in one sitting.
A Long Way to Walk to Get Laid September 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Inman, the protagonist, part Jeremiah Johnson, part the Outlaw Josey Wales, part John Muir, is one of the most ridiculously unbelievable characters in the history of modern fiction. He has no flaws. Temptations on the road?; he eschews them. Wrongs being exacted on the dispossessed?; he rectifies them, usually chivalrously or gallantly. Starving?; he finds food. Shot and buried alive?; he rises from his interment and staggers off. To the woman he loves, this preposterous beacon he's focused on. Frazier is what I call a flora and fauna novelist. He's one of those writers who has assiduously researched the time down to the tiniest fern, or snail. We admire his research. We admire his prose rendering of all this flora and fauna. But when you strip that away you're left with a story so absurd -- see the movie if you don't believe me -- that it defies credulity. Incontrovertibly, one of the most overrated novels of the past ten years. Don't believe me? Read his second book. This one-trick pony did a major face plant. He's finished now, of course. But he's got enough money for three lifetimes so he can drink himself into a stupor and never again have to write about all those plants and animals and cerulean skies. A great southern literary con.
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