Cold Mountain: 20th Anniversary Edition &bull
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction An instant, international bestseller, Charles Frazier\'s debut novel of love and peril at the end of the Civil War was a publishing sensation, the inspiration for an Oscar-nominated blockbuster starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and the subject of an acclaimed opera. - Christian Science Monitor.
Wonderfully convincing, finely detailed. - Newsday A richly rewarding first novel... - USA Today Strikingly beautiful. - New York Review of Books A haunting, beautifully written tale. - New Yorker An astonishing first novel. - San Francisco Chronicle A page turner that attains the status of literature.- Newsweek Finely drawn, full of dark beauty and presentiment. spellbinding. heart-stopping...
A rare and extraordinary book...
Adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and a 2015 opera co-commissioned between Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, Cold Mountain portrays an era that continues to speak eloquently to our time.
Now reissued for its twentieth year, this extraordinary tale of a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land.
Charles Frazier\'s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history in 1997 when it stood at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies.
Over 20 years later, it stands as an essential, modern classic.
Cold Mountain: 20th Anniversary Edition &bull
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction An instant, international bestseller, Charles Frazier\'s debut novel of love and peril at the end of the Civil War was a publishing sensation, the inspiration for an Oscar-nominated blockbuster starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and the subject of an acclaimed opera
