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Gwinnett Reads: Charles Frazier
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This summer’s “Gwinnett Reads” program is set to culminate on Saturday, July 12, with a reading and Q&A with Charles Frazier, author of “Thirteen Moons.” It’ll go down at 6:30 p.m. at the Gwinnett Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth. Here’s the website.
Frazier’s second novel never got the critical or popular traction of his first novel, “Cold Mountain,” which won the National Book Award, but it’s dreadfully unfair to compare everything he writes to such a near-perfect book.
“Moons” is the story of Will Cooper. An excerpt from Publisher’s Weekly review: “The good news is that Frazier’s storytelling prowess doesn’t falter in this sophomore effort, a bountiful literary panorama again set primarily in North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains. The story takes place mostly before the Civil War this time, and it is epic in scope. With pristine prose that’s often wry, Frazier brings a rough-and-tumble pioneer past magnificently to life, indicts America with painful bluntness for the betrayal of its native people and recounts a romance rife with sadness.”
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By Lily Toad
July 9, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
While the writing of Thirteen Moons is not as beautiful as in Cold Mountain, it is interesting regarding the history we never learned in American history. Although fictional, Will is based on a real “white Indian,” William Holland Thomas, who advocated on behalf of Cherokees to keep them from being forced onto the Trail of Tears, and led a Civil War unit, which included Indians.