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Cold Mountain

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Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier
Narrated by: Charles Frazier
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A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began.
As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.

(P)1998 Random House Audio©1997 Charles Frazier Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction War Heartfelt Tear-jerking
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Magnificent . . . this wonderful novel presents the terrible, discordant reality of life in a war. Profoundly moving, it raises all the big questions
A beautiful book, written in exquisite prose (Kate Atkinson)
A remarkable first novel, a romance of love, of friendship, of family, of land. Frazier has inhaled the spirit of the age and breathes it into the reader's being
A poetic account of hardship, violence and longing ... From a simple framework of alternating narratives, Frazier builds up a richly detailed portrayal of a vanished world
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I believe this novel will have at least some sort of influence on whoever reads it. The story contrasts itself constantly. Hopeful and heartwarming one second and then completely devastating the next. It's gritty and realistic.

Makes you feel like a better person.

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beautifully descriptive writing and extremely well read and brought to life by the narrator...and excellent story and performance combined ..

a modern classic ....

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Where does Cold Mountain rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is my all time favourite book. Wish I could give it 6 stars

What other book might you compare Cold Mountain to, and why?

Nothing I've listened to or read

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

"Don't worry we won't use Nicole Kidman"

favourite book of all time

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Exquisite, brutal, heartbreaking,.
It is read as well as it is written.
Vividly imagined and true.
Utterly compelling.

Perfect

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I cannot fathom how somone could write so well but have the most flat boring delivery of reading

having seen the film I was hoping the book would give more detail.

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