Cold Mountain

Frazier, Charles

Edité par Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1997

New condition dark blue boards, black cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Epilogue: October of 1874; and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with two-color front and rear endpaper maps. Also includes a new condition postcard of Cold Mountain, two new condition postcards of Waterrock Knob, and a new condition original photograph of a visitor posing next to the "View Cold Mountain Elev. 6030 Elev. Here 4542" tourist attraction sign. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1997 Nelson Algren Award for Fiction. "This is one of the best books I've read in a long time, and I cried when it was over. It's simply a miracle." - Larry Brown. "Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature. Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded solider, 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 convege 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." - from the inner front jacket flap. "Cold Mountain is the best Civil War novel since Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels. Written in a style equal to that of Shelby Foote, this novel deserves any and all prizes that might be lying about." - Kaye Gibbons. "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 ever read. It seems even possible to never want to read another book, so wonderful is this one. Could Mountain is one of the great accoomplishments in American literature." - Rick Bass. "Charles Frazier's novel is at once spare and eloquent, a panorama that the author stills long enough to make a portrait - a very evocative portrait of Inman, a soldier who is trying to escape a ruined world. Interspresed with so many moments of sadness, the many moments of compassion seem entirely convincing and are very affecting; when Ada 'wanted to tell him how she had come to be what she was,' the understatement - as it is so often in Cold Mountain - is almost shattering. And then comes the ending." - Ann Beattie. "Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is the most impressive and enthralling first novel I have read in a long time. It is a magnetic story, ambitious in scope, with richly developed characters and beautiful evocations of landscape. Though set in an earlier time, it is contemporary in the profoundest sense, with resonance of A Farewell to Arms." - Willie Morris. N° de réf. du vendeur 009095

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Cold Mountain
Éditeur : Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
Date d'édition : 1997
Reliure : Hardcover
Illustrateur : Gall, John (jacket design); National Geographic (jacket photograph); Frazier, Katherine (author photograph)
Etat : New
Etat de la jaquette : Fine
Edition : 1st Edition