Charles Frazier appears at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh on Friday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. There is something admirable about Charles Frazier’s steadfastness and commitment. He was 45 years old when ...

Landscape played a big role in Charles Frazier’s bestselling 1997 novel, “Cold Mountain,” which was adapted into a movie of the same name. The book, its inside cover lined with a map of the southern ...

With his third novel -- after “Cold Mountain” and “13 Moons” -- literary heavyweight Charles Frazier returns to Appalachia but leaves behind the 19th century to set his spooky but slow-moving story in ...

Charles Frazier has made his name as a novelist by exploring the history of the American South, starting with his extraordinarily successful saga about the Civil War, “Cold Mountain.” His second work ...

Scarred by their dysfunctional childhood, sisters Lily and Luce took different paths when they grew up. Lily gave birth to twins, Dolores and Frank, and married the violence-prone Bud. Luce chose a ...

In his third novel, "Nightwoods," Charles Frazier returns us to the side porch of Heaven, the Blue Ridge Mountains of his native North Carolina. Here, he tells a plain, old story about people who ...

There is an exchange at the heart of Nightwoods, Charles Frazier's first novel in five years, that conveys, in what is almost an aside, the central argument of the novel. A man named Stubblefield, ...

Readers should likewise grant themselves a luxurious length of time to read his work. Nightwoods, like its predecessors, contains passages of such beauty and lyricism that you can't help but want to ...

Big ideas need room to breathe so what better choice than North Carolina for Charles Frazier’s new thriller which takes flight amongst the soaring Appalachian mountains. Although many will recognise ...

How we survive has long been the subject of fiction. How we are shaped by our experience perhaps even more so. The characters in Charles Frazier’s latest novel rely on guiding principles they have ...