TY - BOOK AU - Frazier,Charles TI - Cold mountain T2 - Hachette essentials SN - 9780340680599 U1 - 813.54 PY - 1997/// CY - London PB - Sceptre KW - Mountain life KW - North Carolina KW - lcgft KW - War fiction KW - Romance fiction KW - Historical fiction N1 - First published: 1997; Includes bibliographical references N2 - Charles Frazier's debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history in 1997 when it stood at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now reissued for its twentieth year, this extraordinary tale of a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land. Adapted into an Oscar nominated movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and a 2015 opera co-commissioned between Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, Cold Mountain portrays an era that continues to speak eloquently to our time ER -