De blauwe bergen
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789032509484
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Uitgeverij De Kern
Pages no: 399
Edition language: Dutch
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
War,
Contemporary,
Military History,
Civil War
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slav...
The book has progressed and Inman has just been through being caught by military force that has been looking for him. He and Veasey are marched across the country back along where they had already ventured. Finally after a long time of walking, the gaurds decided to shoot the men. The men were shot ...
This has ambitions to be an American Odyssey, telling the tale of a Confederate soldier, Inman, who travels to return to his love Ada at Cold Mountain. I admit there's just about no literary affectation I hate more than the fashion a la Cormac McCarthy to omit quotation marks. Frazier, when he marks...
Beautiful!
Had to read this book (and watch the movie) for an course on North Carolina History. Just glad that I finally finished it because it was long and dull and I just don't care.
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