Summary
Nearly a decade has passed since Charles Frazier's melancholic Civil War-novel debut won the National Book Award and became a runaway bestseller, but the time has not been wasted. In THIRTEEN MOONS, Frazier tells the intricately researched and richly imagined life story of Will Cooper, an orphan who grows up to be a merchant, soldier, lawyer, senator, and surrogate Cherokee during the Trail of Tears, leaving him, in the end, a heartsick and bitter old man.
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"[Charles] Frazier works on an epic scale, but his genius is in the details-he has a scholar's command of the physical realities of early America and a novelist's gift for bringing them to life." -- Lev Grossman
"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....a bountiful literary panorama." [Starred review.]
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published date: 2006
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.8 pounds
Pages: 599
Publisher's Notes
From the age of twelve, when he is sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post, Will's life becomes intertwined with the destiny of the Cherokee Indians, as he falls in love with a mysterious girl named Claire, builds a friendship with a Cherokee Chief named Bear, learns to fight and survive, and battles Washington to preserve the Cherokee homeland and culture. (Historical Fiction)
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