Cold Mountain

Description:

Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature. Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great great-great grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm, with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered.

subjects: United States in fiction,  National Book Award Winner,  Fiction,  History,  United States Civil War, 1861-1865,  Open Library Staff Picks,  award:national_book_award=fiction,  Love stories,  award:national_book_award=1997,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Military deserters,  Large type books,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, war & military,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction

Places: United States

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865