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COLD
MOUNTAIN
Charles Frazier
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
New York
Copyright © 1997 by Charles Frazier
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Published simultaneously in Canada Printed in the United States of America
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frazier, Charles
Cold mountain / Charles Frazier. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-87113-679-1
1. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Fiction. I. Title.
1997 813'.54—dc21 97-275
end paper: An 1847 Macrae map, courtesy of the Department of Cultural Resources, Division of
Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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—for Katherine and Annie
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war anic beings, going on in the peaceful
woods, smiling fields.
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—Darwin, 1839 journal entry
Men ask the way to Cold Mountain. Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.
—Han-shan
the shadow of a crow
At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring. Inman's eyes and the long wound at his neck
drew them, and the sound of their wings and the touch of their feet were soon more potent than a
yardful of roosters in rousing a man to wake. So he came to yet one more day in the hospital ward.
He flapped the flies away with his hands and looked across the foot of his bed to an open triple-hung
window. Ordinarily he could see to the red road and the oak tree and the low brick wall. And beyond
them to a sweep of fields and flat piney woods