Cold mountain: 20th anniversary edition - charles frazier

A rare and extraordinary book .

heart-stopping .

spellbinding.

-- San Francisco Chronicle A page turner that attains the status of literature.

-- Newsweek Finely drawn, full of dark beauty and presentiment.

-- New Yorker An astonishing first novel.

-- New York Review of Books Charles Fraziers 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.

Now reissued for its twentieth year, this extraordinary tale of a soldiers 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.

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.

A haunting, beautifully written tale.

-- USA Today Strikingly beautiful.

-- Newsday A richly rewarding first novel .

Wonderfully convincing, finely detailed.

-- Christian Science Monitor.