Cold Mountain (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Frazier
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The Civil War period
- Setting: Virginia and North Carolina
- Principal Characters: W. P. Inman, Ada Monroe, Monroe, Ruby Thewes, Stobrod Thewes, Swimmer, Solomon Veasey, Teague
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Class consciousness, Ministry or ministers, Civil War, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Mountains, Wounds or injuries, Herbs, Walking
- Locales: Virginia, North Carolina
Charles Frazier’s hauntingly beautiful first novel, Cold Mountain, demonstrates once again that the Civil War is a source of inexhaustible fascination for Americans. In a carefully crafted, meticulously authentic tale, Frazier recounts the epic story of W. P. Inman, a Confederate war veteran who tries to make his way home to the western North Carolina mountains in the midst of the social chaos of the Civil War. Set mainly in North Carolina, Cold Mountain recounts Inman’s numerous adventures and close scrapes with death during his three-hundred- mile trek on foot from a...
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