The Author:Cold Mountain was the acclaimed first novel written by Charles Frazier one of the only two he has written so far, and has also been traslated in to a motion picture however I have not seen it. Charles was born in 1950 in Ashvile, North Carolina, to Charles and Betty Frazier. He graduated from high school with an aspiration to teach literature and went on to obtain a M.A. from Appalachian State University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina in 1986.
Cold Mountain: Cold Mountain follows the story of Inman a deserting confederate soldier and Ada a heiress to a farm that once her father died fell in to ruin from Ada's lack of farm hands and her lack of knowledge how to do the work her self. Inman, being based partly on Charles Frazier's great-great uncle, W.P. Inman, eludes The House Guard, an organization to capture deserters and traitors and send them back to the front lines, and embarks a journey from a Virginia hospital to Cold Mountain in Tennessee made all the more difficult because he left before a wound on his neck could heal. All the while Ada struggles to stay a live by her self on her farm in Black Cove high in the mountains.
The novel as a whole: This book is an excellent quick read. Very well written. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a book for entertainment or those seeking another book for use on the A.P Lit test with not a lot of time to read.
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