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Turning his back on the carnage of the American Civil War, soldier Inman begins a treacherous journey through the soon-to-be defeated South. He is going home, to Cold Mountain, where his sweetheart Ada struggles to make a living from the land. Neither knows if the other is alive.
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Side note: It only took about 100 pages to get used to the way he writes dialogue. He, like some others (Cormac McCarthy comes to mind) greatly reduce the punctuation used and no quotation marks at all. Frazier is such a strong writer though that unless you approach the book casually, you don't often get lost in the narrative. Still, it took me some time to adapt to the style.
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