Cold Mountain [B1692]

1997 HCDJ in nice clean condition. National Book Award Winner. A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award-winning novel: "A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep."-People. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Love a historical fiction. Love a Brevard mention. Great first read of 2026 - time to add the movie and the hike to my list."; "I find so much comfort in books like this, that take place in the past and just ramble on and paint a picture of how life used to be. Beautifully written and surprisingly interesting, given that the actual 'plot' is pretty barebones."; "This is a beautifully written historical novel that I felt gave me a lot of insight into the civil war which is not something I'm super familiar with. I did often wish my book had a glossary because I was not familiar with a lot of the terms or the concepts but even so I loved the writing. This is a heavy book, a little bit Emerson and a little bit Odysseus but the harshness made me grateful for my life now as well as grateful that my ancestors survived the era. It also made me think about the progress (or lack thereof) of the United States and how the war shaped our country. Overall I highly recommend this book for anyone who is a fan of historical fiction."; "Wow! this one just stole my senses. A man with such grit crosses borders, fights devils (ugly men), and survives harsh weather only to see his lover. Yes! It's sad to see how it ended but if it's not a fairy tale after all."