Cold Mountain (novel)

Cold Mountain (novel)

Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the story shares several similarities with Homer's The Odyssey. The novel alternates chapter-by-chapter between Inman's and Ada's stories. It was Charles Frazier's first novel and a major bestseller, selling roughly three million copies worldwide. It was also adapted into an award-winning film of the same name.

The real W. P. Inman was Frazier's great-great-uncle, who lived near the real Cold Mountain, now within the Pisgah National Forest, Haywood County, North Carolina.

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