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Probably one of the most acclaimed books in recent storage, Charles Frazier’s Cool Hill is a masterpiece that is simultaneously an enthralling adventure, a stirring love tale, and a luminous evocation of the vanished American in all it is savagery, solitude, and splendor.

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back again to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains also to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek over the disintegrating South provides him into romantic and occasionally lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At exactly the same time, Ada is wanting to revive her father’s derelict plantation and learn to survive in a global where the outdated certainties have been swept away. Since it interweaves their stories, Cold Hill asserts itself as a geniune American Odyssey–hugely effective, majestically beautiful, and keenly moving.