Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier, 1997
A wounded Confederate soldier walks home across the Blue Ridge while a woman learns to farm alone: a slow, sensuous novel about survival, attention, and the long road back.
Charles Frazier
Frazier was born in Asheville, North Carolina; the novel grew from a family story about his great-great-grandfather, who deserted the Confederate army and walked home.
Feels like home, longing and war.
The rules a prisoner invents to make a window interesting.
That summer, Inman had viewed the world as if it were a picture framed by the molding around the window. Long stretches of time often passed when, for all the change in the scene, it might as well have been an old painting of a road, a wall, a tree, a cart, a blind man. Inman had sometimes counted off slow numbers in his head to see how long it would be before anything of significance altered. It was a game and he had rules for it. A bird flying by did not count. Someone walking down the road did. Major weather changes did-the sun coming out, fresh rain-but shadows of passing clouds did not. Some days he’d get up in the thousands before there was any allowable alteration in the elements of the picture. Books by Charles Frazier
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