Thirteen Moons (Random House Large Print) - Hardcover

Frazier, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375431896 ISBN 13: 9780375431890

Publisher: Random House Large Print, 2006

Synopsis

This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.

At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins – for a brief moment – a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will’s destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians – including a Cherokee Chief named Bear – he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee’s homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that “only desire trumps time.”

Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man’s passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man’s destiny over the many moons of a life.

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Review:

Praise for COLD MOUNTAIN (:)

A remarkable first novel, a romance of love, of friendship, of family, of land. Frazier has inhaled the spirit of the age and breathes it into the reader's being (Erica Wagner, The Times)

Cold Mountain is a heartbreakingly beautiful story, elegantly told and utterly convincing down to the last haunting detail (John Berendt)

Full of graphic, unflinching details, striking concrete images and lyrically precise descriptions of the natural world, this wonderful novel presents the terrible, discordant reality of life in a war. Profoundly moving, it raises all the big questions (Christina Patterson, Observer)

Book Description:

The epic journey of one man's life, by one of America's most outstanding writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Large Print
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0375431896
• ISBN 13: 9780375431890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 599