Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier who won the U.S. National Book Award. for Fiction. It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army towards the end of the American Civil War that goes months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; stories share some similarities with Homer Odyssey . The narrative alternates back and forth each chapter between the stories of Inman and Ada, a recently ministerial daughter moving from Charleston to a farm in a rural mountain community near Cold Mountain, North Carolina from where Inman came from. Although they only knew each other for a short time before Inman went to war, most hope to see There was another who pushed Inman to leave the troops and make a dangerous journey back to Cold Mountain. Their brief historical details together are told at intervals in flashbacks during the novel.
The novel, which was the first work of Charles Frazier, became a premier best-seller, selling around three million copies worldwide. It was adapted into an Academy Award winning film of the same name in 2003.
Frazier said that W. P. Inman is actually his great-great-uncle living near the true Cold Mountain, now in the Pisgah National Forest, Haywood County, North Carolina. In his confession, Frazier apologizes for taking "great freedom" in writing the life of W. P. Inman. Frazier also uses Hendricks County, Indiana, the original book of John V. Hadley The Seven Months of a Prisoner as an inspiration for this novel.
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Plot
The novel was opened at a Confederate military hospital near Raleigh, North Carolina, where Inman was recovering from battle wounds during the American Civil War. The soldier was tired of fighting for a goal he never believed. After considering the advice of a blind man and being moved by the death of the man in the bed beside him, he decides one night to fall out of the hospital and return home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina.
At Cold Mountain, Ada's father died soon. The ranch, named Black Cove, that the True Person, who grew up in a city that lived there was soon reduced to a state of disrepair. But he was rescued from squalor by a young woman reasoned-but-had no home named Ruby, who immediately moved with him. Together, they clean the place and return it to productivity. Ruby also teaches There are ways to survive in this very different time. There is sharing his knowledge of literature with Ruby.
Inman soon became aware of the Confederate Imperial Guards, who were hunting down the military deserters of the Confederacy. He meets a preacher called Veasey, whom he captures in the act of trying to kill a woman who has been impregnated. After Inman persuades him, they travel together. They jutted the dead bull that fell into the river and the bull owner, Junior, gave them away to the Home Guard. They were put in a group of other prisoners who were arrested and marched for days before Home Guard decided to shoot them because they were "too much trouble". Cruel steps forward to try to stop them and get killed. Inman is scratched by a bullet that has passed Veasey and is considered dead. The Guards dug a bad mass grave and Inman pulled out, partially assisted by some boars passing by. He can not bury Veasey, so he turns his face and goes on.
Travel Inman is rude. He faces starvation and attempted armed robbery in rural taverns, though he brings a LeMat gun for protection. Sometimes, he is helped and protected by civilians who do not want to deal with war. Through ingenious ingenuity, he helped one of them track and restore the pig, his only possession and the source of food for the winter, which had just been confiscated by Union troops. He is also assisted by a woman who has a goat, who gives her advice and medicines to finally heal the wound.
Ruby's father, Stobrod, was caught stealing corn at Ada's farm. Ruby reveals he was a harassed loser and ignored him when he was very young; he is also a Confederate deserter. However, Ruby reluctantly fed him. Soon he returned to the next day with a simple-minded friend named Pangle. Together they entertain everyone by playing the violin and banjo. But Home Guard, led by a sadistic Captain Theism, eventually tracked them down and shot them. A third friend, referred to as "Georgia," escaped from the murder and went to warn Ada and Ruby. The two women climbed up and found Stobrod almost alive. There's a Ruby and a pitch camp to give him a place to recover.
After Inman arrives at Black Cove to find him empty, he starts searching for Ada on the mountain. Unexpectedly he soon met him hunting wild turkeys. Both have greatly changed in their appearance and behavior because they parted that it was some time before they recognized each other. Inman takes the camp with Ada and Ruby. Ruby is scared There's going to fire her now she has a husband, and Ada assures her that she needs him as a friend and for his ideas and help. Ruby gave her the blessing. Later There and Inman make love. They gladly begin to imagine the life they will have together at Black Cove and make plans for their future.
However, when the party started the journey back to the ranch, they met with the Front Guard. A firefight begins when Inman kills all members of the Home Guard except Birch who is 17 years old, Teague's evil jokes. Inman finally cornered the boy into a rock cliff but was reluctant to shoot him in cold blood. However, after an unsuccessful attempt to convince Birch to lay his arm and leave, the boy shot and killed Inman.
There was abandoned a widow who was pregnant. She brought up her daughter in Black Cove, where she lives with Ruby and Stobrod.
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Awards and nominations
Cold Mountain won the National Book Award, W.D. Weatherford Award (1997), and Boeke Prize (1998).
Adaptations
- This book was adapted for the screen by director Anthony Minghella, as the 2003 film Cold Mountain, starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renà ©  © Zellweger. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Jude Law, and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Renà ©  © Zellweger.
- The novel has been adapted as an opera, Cold Mountain , presented during the 2015 summer festival season by The Santa Fe Opera, in co-production and co-production with Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, with North Carolina Opera, and recorded for PENTATONE (PTC 5186583). This work was composed by the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner in music, Jennifer Higdon, from libretto written by Gene Scheer. It was Higdon's first opera.
Reception
Cold Mountain has received a mixed critical welcome. "Kirkus" at The Atlantic praised Frazier's use of the language, writes: "Frazier has the gift of Cormac McCarthy to make tones and pliers from regional speeches, and to capture some of the strangeness of human nature." Kirkus goes on to say that Cold Mountain is "a promising, long, and unbalanced debut." Again, critics praised and rebuked the novel, stating: "The tragic climax is reassuring, but rather rushed, given the many ambiguous scenes that have preceded it." The length of the novel and the slow pace of storytelling is again questioned when critics claim "there is no doubt that Frazier can write: the problem is that he stops so often to enjoy the fun of writing in his debut attempt." The online periodical Publisher's Weekly produced a more positive review of book writing: "Frazier clearly portrays the rough and varied terrain of Inman's journey and the colorful characters he meets." Weekly Publishers goes on to say that "Frazier shows how the lives of soldiers and civilians are equally profound and changing as a direct consequence of the tragedy of war."
References
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