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Cold Mountain

Auteur(s): Charles Frazier
Narrateur(s): Charles Frazier
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One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.

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, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn 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 American Odyssey--hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.©1997 Charles Frazier; (P)1998 Random House, Inc., Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Histoire Historique

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"Cold Mountain is a heartbreakingly beautiful story, elegantly told and utterly convincing down to the last haunting detail."—John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

"This novel is so magnificent — in every conceivable aspect, and others previously unimagined — that it has occurred to me that the shadow of this book, and the joy I received in reading it, will fall over every other book I have ever read."—Rick Bass

"Lush, poetic, moving and artfully exciting—A heightened, thrilling love story—Perhaps the most eloquent writing about the awful drudgery and desperation of the Civil War since Thomas Keneally's Confederates—A great read."—John Doyle, The Globe and Mail

"Charles Frazier has taken on a daunting task — and has done extraordinarily well by it.... In prose filled with grace notes and trenchant asides, he has reset much of the Odyssey in 19-century America, near the end of the Civil War.... A Whitmanesque foray into America; into its hugeness, its freshness, its scope and its soul—Such a memorable book."—The New York Times Book Review

"A page-turner that attains the status of literature—Natural-born storytellers come along only rarely. Charles Frazier joins the ranks of that elite cadre on the first page of his astonishing debut."—Newsweek

"A rare and extraordinary book—Heart-stopping—Spellbinding."—San Francisco Chronicle

"A great read — a stirring Civil War tale told with...epic sweep...loaded with vivid historical detail."—People
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An intimate and authentic tale of life during the Civil War era, beautifully written and performed. Never wanted it to end.

A great book with a consistently taut through-line

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In our osn dark time this story is about good men and women trying to survive with dignity. The author is no actor but his sincere reading is compelling.

A masterpirce to stand beside Huckleberry Finn

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I enjoyed this book very much. As a Canadian I only have a cursory understanding of the civil war. Cold Mountain is more about the impact of the war on a handful of people struggling to survive. There's a significant amount of cruelty & suffering but that’s balanced by love, compassion & honour. The characters thoughts & interactions are developed very deeply. Also the author’s descriptions of the landscape & objects in it are very inspiring. I will definitely seek out other books by Charles Frazier.

The Human Impact of the Civil War

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I first read Cold Mountain back some 20 years ago and it’s been that long since I cracked the book, but when I decided to listen on Audible, I could barely stop listening, until the bittersweet end.

So descriptive, so beautiful, a joy to listen to.

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the narration was so awful I barely forced my way through this book.

it droned on and on I couldn't even recap what the story was about if someone asked me. background noise only. if I try again I'd rather read the paperback but that's a long shot that I would spend the money. I kept waiting for something to happen and nothing did. dreary novel. dreary narration.

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