"Cold Mountain"

[Sojourner]

For those of you interested, there was a special on "Cold Mountain"
on All Things Considered on public radio yesterday.

Linda talks with author Charles Frazier about his new
novel, called "Cold Mountain." It's his first novel, and it's set in the
last year of
the Civil War. The story is loosely based on the story of a distant
relative of
Frazier's, named W.P. Inman...a Confederate soldier wounded at Petersburg.
In the novel, Inman leaves his hospital bed in raleigh, and embarks on a
journey
across North Carolina back home to Cold Mountain and Ada, the woman he
loves. Along the way he sees both a landscape and people ravaged by war and
poverty. At the same time, Ada inherits a farm from her father which she knows
nothing about running, and must learn about living off the land. The
novel...which
has become an unlikely best-seller...is a story of two people on a journey
toward each other. (9:30) 

The RealAudio transcript should be available until tomorrow afternoon at:

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/970813.atc.08.ram