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A review by randomshai
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
5.0
“Almost nothing in life is epic or tragic at the moment of its enactment. History in the making, at least on the personal level, is almost exclusively pathetic. People suffer and die in ignorance and delusion.”
What can I say; I’m a sucker for rural historical fiction. This was my first sojourn into Frazier’s written world, and I was hooked from the beginning. Although perhaps my favorite genre, many authors lose me in their attempt at recreating the worlds of our past. However, the voice of Will Cooper (as penned by Frazier) paints the wild scenery, rough companions, and unwaveringly raw wit of his life so clearly one almost forgets it is a fictitious tale. Based on this book, I’ll be (shamelessly) bumping “Cold Mountain” to the top of my February TBR. This is a written world to which I’d readily return, and considering I fell so hard for this novel I have no doubt his higher rated novel will fulfill this wish.
“We all reach a point where we would like to draw a line across time and declare everything on the far side null. Shed our past life like a pair of wet and muddy trousers, just roll their heavy clinging fabric down our legs and step away. We also reach a point where we would give the rest of our withering days for the month of July in our seventeenth year. But no thread of Ariadne exists to lead us back there.”
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What can I say; I’m a sucker for rural historical fiction. This was my first sojourn into Frazier’s written world, and I was hooked from the beginning. Although perhaps my favorite genre, many authors lose me in their attempt at recreating the worlds of our past. However, the voice of Will Cooper (as penned by Frazier) paints the wild scenery, rough companions, and unwaveringly raw wit of his life so clearly one almost forgets it is a fictitious tale. Based on this book, I’ll be (shamelessly) bumping “Cold Mountain” to the top of my February TBR. This is a written world to which I’d readily return, and considering I fell so hard for this novel I have no doubt his higher rated novel will fulfill this wish.
“We all reach a point where we would like to draw a line across time and declare everything on the far side null. Shed our past life like a pair of wet and muddy trousers, just roll their heavy clinging fabric down our legs and step away. We also reach a point where we would give the rest of our withering days for the month of July in our seventeenth year. But no thread of Ariadne exists to lead us back there.”
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