Asheville native Charles Frazier burst on the scene in 1997 with his debut novel, "Cold Mountain," retelling Homer's "Odyssey" as the epic tale of a Civil War soldier trying to return home to western ...

Frazier's mythic novel about a wounded Confederate soldier's return to his sweetheart in the mountains of western North Carolina achieved critical and popular acclaim, and the film version of it ...

In movies hyped as perfect films, finding flaws can be especially painful. Cold Mountain happens to be one of those movies. Cold Mountain, based upon the award-winning novel by Charles Frazier, is ...