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Cold Mountain

by Charles Frazier

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Cold Mountain

Film · 2003

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Anthony Minghella's film adapts Charles Frazier's novel about a wounded Confederate soldier who deserts and walks home to North Carolina, and the woman waiting for him on her ruined farm.

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  • American Civil War

Charles Frazier based the novel on a family story about his great-great-uncle, a Confederate soldier who walked home to the North Carolina mountains near the end of the Civil War.

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Cold Mountain

It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the story shares several similarities with Homer's Odyssey, with the protagonist's circuitous and often derailed journey homeward as the central example. Nearly every chapter alternates between the stories of Inman and Ada, a minister's daughter recently relocated from Charleston to a farm in a rural mountain community near Cold Mountain, North Carolina, from which Inman hails. Though they knew each other only for a brief time before Inman departed for the war, it is largely the hope of seeing Ada again that drives Inman to desert the army and make the dangerous journey back to Cold Mountain. Details of their brief history together are told at intervals in flashback over the course of the novel.

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