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Luce is a woman who likes to live apart from everyone else. Charles frazier, the acclaimed author of cold mountain and thirteen moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in smalltown north carolina in the early 1960s. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading nightwoods. Fraziers first novel, the civil war bestseller cold mountain, was made into a schmaltzy movie. Nightwoods by charles frazier audio book simply audiobooks. Cold mountain 1997, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, won the national book award in 1997, and was adapted into an academy awardwinning film by anthony minghella in 2003. May 24, 2012 because charles frazier s cold mountain is one of my all time favorite books, his thriller, nightwoods was a happy find for me.
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