Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier - 1997
Introduction
Charles Frazier's first novel, Cold Mountain, met with substantial critical and popular acclaim immediately upon its publication in 1997. Ins...
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Charles Frazier's first novel, Cold Mountain, stunned the literary world, becoming a best-seller and winning the 1997 National Book Award. The work also grabbed the hearts of readers by telling, as Pe...
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Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain became a phenomenon when it was released in 1997, producing massive sales for its publisher, Atlantic Monthly Press, and eventually garnering Frazier the National Book ...
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[In the following review, Berona lauds Cold Mountain as a work that "will enrich readers not only with its story but with its strong characters."]
This monumental novel is set at the end...
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[In the following review, Carroll calls Cold Mountain "a satisfying read."]
The Civil War's last months are the setting for this first novel by Frazier, erstwhile college teacher ...
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[In the following review, Jones offers a highly positive review of Cold Mountain.]
Novelists are never in short supply. Natural-born storytellers come along only rarely. Charles Frazier joins the rank...
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[In the following review, Messud praises the lyricism and language of Frazier's Cold Mountain, but complains that the ending "relies unabashedly on the conventions of romance."]
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[In the following review, Polk considers numerous secondary elements of Cold Mountain, but notes that "however strongly the side issues resonate, they are never allowed to interfere with the ma...
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[In the following excerpt, Patterson asserts that Cold Mountain "presents the terrible, discordant reality of life in a war."]
God, sex, pigs, mountains and cheese feature heavily in [Co...
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Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier - 1997
Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier
