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Some slight creasing around the edges, otherwise book and jacket both in near fine condition. Cold mountain, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, selling over one million copies and. Charles frazier, the acclaimed author of cold mountain and thirteen moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in smalltown north carolina in the early 1960s. Cold mountain by charles frazier books hachette australia. His new book looks at the confederacy through eyes of. It is a magnetic story, ambitious in scope, with richly developed characters and beautiful evocations of landscape.
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Cold mountain by frazier, charles author paperback on 01sep2006 charles frazier. Cold mountain author charles frazier returns to civil war. Frazier was born in asheville, north carolina, grew up in andrews and franklin, north carolina, and graduated from the university of north carolina in 1973. Charles frazier has 15 books on goodreads with 392588 ratings. Cold mountain is at once a civil war story, a magnificent love story, and the story of two parallel odysseys. Frazier, born november 4, 1950 in asheville, north carolina, is a bestselling and awardwinning novelist. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Charles fraziers debut novel, cold mountain, which has sold 3 million copies, will be reissued by grove in paperback to coincide with the major event publication of his 2nd book, moons, by random house on october 3rd, 2006. Charles fraziers debut novel, cold mountain, which has sold 3 million copies. This is an oversimplification, but the epic scope is there, the perilous journey, the oddball characters met on the. Cold mountain author charles frazier returns to civil.
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