Cold Mountain: A Novel

Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. First edition, later printing. Blue paper over boards, Blue cloth spine. Gold lettering. Book in near mint condition with fine dust jacket./Very Good. Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada Inman's odyssey through 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 and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered Charles Frazier reveals marked insight into man's relationship to the land and the dangers of solitude He also shares with the great nineteenth-century novelists a keen observation of a society undergoing change Cold Mountain re-creates a world gone by that speaks eloquently to our time. Atlantic Monthly Press,First Edition, later printing
,5/16/1997. Very good, clean solid. DJ Very good , slightly yellow at inside, top flat, not clipped $24.00.