Cold Mountain

Summary

A wounded Confederate soldier named Inman walks away from a military hospital and begins a long, dangerous journey across the war-torn South toward the Blue Ridge Mountains and the woman he left behind. The narrative alternates with her own struggle to keep a failing farm alive in his absence, learning hard country skills from a wandering young drifter. Frazier writes in a measured, Homeric register that gives the landscape itself the force of a character.