A Long, Hard Journey

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Very enjoyable read. Frazier has quite the way with words. In fact, there's a bunch I need to look up--usually something describing a particular thing in use back in the 1860s. Quite the journey by the wounded deserting soldier, Inman, who walks from somewhere up in northern Virginia down to a place in the Blue Ridge mountains southwest of Asheville. Chapters are interspersed with goings on back in Black Cove near Cold Mountain, where the beautiful & genteel Ada, his budding love, is learning a few lessons on survival herself, with the help of the inimitable Ruby. Can't wait to watch the film again.


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