Thirteen Moons
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4th October 2007
Price: £10.99
Genre
C 1800 To C 1900 / Historical Romance / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945) / North Carolina
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340826638
An epic tale of love, identity and survival, Thirteen Moons follows one man’s journey through a changing America as his fate becomes inseparable from that of the Cherokee Nation.
‘Frazier is a timeless master magician who renders the textures of the landscape, emotion and history all excruciatingly real’ Time Out
‘Readers who absorb Will’s story will find their own lives enriched. THIRTEEN MOONS belongs to the ages.’ LA Times
At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will Cooper 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. There he grows into a man, learning the resilience needed to build a life and find a home.
In a card game with a plantation owner named Featherstone, Will wins, for a brief moment, a mysterious girl named Claire, whose memory and hold on him endure for years. As his fate becomes entwined with that of the Cherokee people, including Chief Bear, Will learns to survive the challenges of nature and men.
Eventually, Will joins the fight to protect Cherokee land and culture from encroaching forces. As he confronts loss, loyalty and the passage of time, he comes to understand the truth behind his belief that only desire can overcome time itself.
‘A powerful dramatization of a shameful episode in American history and a compelling love story’ The Times
‘Alive with wonder and adventure. Frazier is a wonderfully sensual writer’ Literary Review
‘Wonderful’ Guardian
‘Frazier is a timeless master magician who renders the textures of the landscape, emotion and history all excruciatingly real’ Time Out
‘Readers who absorb Will’s story will find their own lives enriched. THIRTEEN MOONS belongs to the ages.’ LA Times
At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will Cooper 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. There he grows into a man, learning the resilience needed to build a life and find a home.
In a card game with a plantation owner named Featherstone, Will wins, for a brief moment, a mysterious girl named Claire, whose memory and hold on him endure for years. As his fate becomes entwined with that of the Cherokee people, including Chief Bear, Will learns to survive the challenges of nature and men.
Eventually, Will joins the fight to protect Cherokee land and culture from encroaching forces. As he confronts loss, loyalty and the passage of time, he comes to understand the truth behind his belief that only desire can overcome time itself.
‘A powerful dramatization of a shameful episode in American history and a compelling love story’ The Times
‘Alive with wonder and adventure. Frazier is a wonderfully sensual writer’ Literary Review
‘Wonderful’ Guardian
Reviews
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.
'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.'
'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.'
Its narrative has a thoroughly human scale and informs just as much as it moves and entertains
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.
'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.'
A novel whose prose is so carefully wrought that it reads like fragments of a long poem.
Frazier is a timeless master magician who renders the texture of the landscape, emotion and history all excruciatingly real
It is this meeting of two conflicting ideas of personal and social history that gives Thirteen Moons its great wisdom. . . alive with wonder and adventure. Frazier is a wonderfully sensual writer