Historical · Literary
Cold Mountain
A wounded Confederate soldier deserts and begins a long walk home across the Appalachian mountains, driven by memory of a woman he barely knew. At the farm, she is trying to survive alone with a tough drifter's help.
- First published
- 1997
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like slow, lyrical American historical fiction about a journey home from war.
Skip this if you want much speed; the prose lingers on landscape, and the lovers spend nearly the whole book apart.
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