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Book Review of Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain
Author: Charles Frazier
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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If you saw the movie you know one version of this story. Willie Morris says, " Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain' is the most impressive and enthralling first novel I have read in a long time. It's a magical story, ambitious in scope, with richly developed characters and beautiful evocations of landscape' Though set in an earlier time, it is con-temporary in the profoundest sense, with resonance of 'A Farewell to Arms'." High praise comes from Rick Bass as well, "...the joy I received in reading it, will fall over every other book, so wonderful is this one. 'Cold Mountain' is one of the great accomplishments in American literature."