SOURCE: "Tried in the Fire," in The Washington Post Book World, July 6, 1997, p. 6.
[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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