num_pages: 449
description: 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.
language: English
title: Cold Mountain
titlecomplete: Cold Mountain
characters: Ruby Thewes, William "W. P." Inman, Ada Monroe
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Civil War, Romance
ratings_count: 239824
places: Virginia, North Carolina, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: American Booksellers Book Of The Year  Award
category: Adult Trade, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Weatherford Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
publisher: Vintage