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Cold Mountain : A Novel

This is an excellent novel. The movie, sadly, has supplanted it in our cultural minds--sad, because the movie was crap. The novel retells the Odyssey, loosely, set during the American Civil War. Told alternately in the voices of the main characters (Odysseus and Penelope, can't remember their names off hand). It's sometimes a little cloying, but it's well conceived nonetheless. Don't read it if you're afraid of big words and lyrical writing ;-)


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Description: This is an excellent novel. The movie, sadly, has supplanted it in our cultural minds--sad,...


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