03038cam a2200385 i 4500 91541154 TxAuBib 19971024120000.0 970127s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97-275 9780871136794 0871136791 (OCoLC)36352242 TxAuBib rda Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold mountain [Print] / Charles Frazier. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. 368 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Map of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains on endpapers. The United States of America, North Carolina (United States), Virginia (United States.) Cold Mountain is a novel about a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's end. At once a love story & a harrowing account of one man’s long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a new talent in American literature. Based on local history & family stories passed down by Frazier’s great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war & back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. His odyssey thru 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 & Ada confront the vastly transformed world they’ve been delivered. Frazier reveals insight into human relations with the land & the dangers of solitude. He also shares with the great 19th century novelists a keen observation of a society undergoing change. Cold Mountain recreates a world gone by that speaks to our time. 19971024. National Book Award for Fiction (1997), American Booksellers Book Of The Year Award for Adult Trade (1998), Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (1998), Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1998), Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1997), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1997), Language Learner Literature Award for Adolescents and Adults—Advanced (2005), Weatherford Award (1997), Lillian Smith Book Award (1997), Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award (1997), Book Sense Book of the Year Award | Winner | Adult | 1998 ; National Book Awards | Winner | Fiction | 1997 ; National Book Critics Circle Award | Nominee | Fiction | 1997 ; ALA Notable Books | Winner | Fiction | 1998. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Love stories. FICTION / Historical / General. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / War & Military. FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary. TXTLL