Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier - ISBN: 9780340826638
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A boy’s journey: desire, destiny, and the fight for a homeland.

Thirteen Moons

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  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    1 June 2007

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Summary

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 th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340826638
ISBN-10:0340826630
Author:Charles Frazier
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Sceptre
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:1 June 2007
Weight:341g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 28mm
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Critics Review

What makes it so appealing is the voice of Will Cooper, which is potent, wry, insightful and utterly convincing … as rich a fiction as it is an eventful one. - Andrew Rosenheim, Time Literary Supplement

THIRTEEN MOONS will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will’s story will find their own lives enriched. THIRTEEN MOONS belongs to the ages. - LA Times

Almost a decade since the publication of his bestseller Cold Mountain, Frazier has produced another no less-absorbing and richly textured account of America in the years leading up to and encompassing the Civil War. Frazier is adept not only at the set pieces… but also at the more intimate observations of people and places. It is this that makes his story both a powerful dramatisation of a shameful episode in American history and a compelling love story. - Christina Konig, The Times

Its narrative has a thoroughly human scale and informs just as much as it moves and entertains - Frank Egerton, The Times

The history that Frazier hauntingly unwinds through Will is as melodic as it is melancholy, but the sublime love story is the narrative’s true heart. - Publishers Weekly

Frazier’s keen observations and unforced, unsentimental depictions of animals are wonderful … like the western it references, it’s far-ranging, hard-fighting and soft-hearted. - Guardian

A novel whose prose is so carefully wrought that it reads like fragments of a long poem. - Telegraph

Frazier is a timeless master magician who renders the texture of the landscape, emotion and history all excruciatingly real - Time Out

About The Author

Charles Frazier

Charles Frazier grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. Cold Mountain, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, and won the National Book Award in 1997.

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