Cold mountain / Charles Frazier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frazier, Charles, 1950-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Love stories.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

356 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [1997]

Summary:

Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm, with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered. Charles Frazier reveals marked insight into man's relationship to the land and the dangers of solitude. He also shares with the great nineteenth-century novelists a keen observation of a society undergoing change. Cold Mountain re-creates a world gone by that speaks eloquently to our time.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

0871136791

OCLC:

36352242