Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
A rare and extraordinary book . . . heart-stopping . . . spellbinding.--San Francisco Chronicle A page turner that attains the status of literature.--Newsweek Finely drawn, full of dark beauty and presentiment.--New Yorker An astonishing first novel.--New York Review of Books Charles Frazier's debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history in 1997 when it stood at 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 reissued for its twentieth year, this extraordinary tale of a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land. Adapted into an Oscar nominated movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and a 2015 opera co-commissioned between Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, Cold Mountain portrays an era that continues to speak eloquently to our time. A haunting, beautifully written tale.--USA Today Strikingly beautiful.--Newsday A richly rewarding first novel . . . Wonderfully convincing, finely detailed. --Christian Science MonitorCharles Frazier was born in 1950 in Caroline-du-Nord, where he has always lived with his family. He becomes a professor at Caroline-du-Nord University after completing his studies in literature and winning awards. Return to Cold Mountain is based on the story of his arrière-arrière-grand-oncle and took five years of research into regional traditions, music, popular stories, military records, and late-nineteenth-century sudist journals. It was published in ten countries and won the National Book Prize in 1997.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375700750 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375700757 |
| Title | Cold Mountain |
| Author | Charles Frazier |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1998-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 449 |
| Prizes | Winner of United States National Book Awards: Fiction 1997 |
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