Summary and Reviews of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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 that stretched to the western horizon. The view was a long one for the flatlands, the hospital having been built on the only swell within eyeshot. But it was too early yet for a vista. The window might as well have been painted grey.

Had it not been too dim, Inman would have read to pass the time until breakfast, for the book he was reading had the effect of settling his mind. But he had burned up the last of his ...

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How has your reading changed as you've gotten older, if at all?
...re than in the past. I've pulled some that struck me as keepers in the past and am reading again to see what had intrigued me about them. Things like Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski and A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. I know wh...
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Which book(s) have you read at least three times as an adult?
...daughter calls it my bible. So much of what I believe comes from this book that she could be on the right track. Another I've reread several times is Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. I've read Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song several times and again just recently since the death penalty is being used in several states again...
-Linda_O_donnell

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