Books
by Charles Frazier
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Cold Mountain |
Parallel story of deserter returning home on foot from American Civil War and his girlfriend making her way alone at home. A satisfying historical reconstruction, well written, highly atmospheric. Pity about predictable ending, but all in all a compelling latter-day Odyssey.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 2 March 2000) |
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Cold Mountain |
A first novel by this young American about a man who deserts - after being badly wounded on the Confederate side in the American Civil War. Partly based on fact and quite one of the best novels I have read in years. We read it in our Reading Club recently and everyone commented favourably on it, without exception, which is rare!. The language, the descriptions, the history, the lack of sentiment, the characterisation all impressed us.
(Charles Moncreiffe - bwl 13 April 2002) |
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Nightwoods |
The late 1950s, a young woman, seeks solace from the world in the Appalachian backwoods, but her contentment is shattered with the arrival of two damaged children, her murdered sister's twins, for whom their killer father is searching believing they have stolen a cache of money. Wonderful, spare, lyrical writing, an inward-looking rural community peopled by characters powerfully drawn, I savoured it, though it wasn't liked by everyone in my book group.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 63 Winter 2011) |
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