Frazier cleverly divides the narrative between Inman's trek and Ada's story as she struggles to make due in the wake of her father's death and the absence of her love. Along the way, he is confronted by various obstacles, but he journeys on valiantly, regardless. In Cold Mountain, Inman is a wounded confederate soldier who abandons the war to venture home to his beloved Ada. For six or seven years, he toiled away on the story that would ultimately become Cold Mountain, and with the novel's publication in 1997, the first-time author had a modern classic of American literature on his hands. Slowly, a gripping tale of devotion, faith, redemption, and love coalesced in Frazier's mind. He also looked toward the legendary epic poem The Odyssey for inspiration. Bits of the life of Frazier's grandfather, who also fought in the Civil War, helped flesh out the journey of William Pinkney Inman. The specifics of Inman's history were sketchy, indeed, but Frazier's father spun his tale with such enticing drama that Frazier began filling in the gaps, himself. Inman was a confederate soldier during the Civil War who took a harrowing foot-journey from the ravaged battle fields back to his home in the mountains of North Carolina. Frazier published Thirteen Moons.įrazier had been teaching University-level literature part-time when he first became spellbound by the story of his great-great uncle W. Cold Mountain, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, and won the National Book Award in 1997.
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