"He's one of a very small number of writers whom I immediately buy, without waiting for reviews, whenever I see a new book. There's a largeness of what he's doing, a sense of landscape and life and also a spiritual scope. He reminds me a lot of Kerouac--and, like Kerouac, I feel better after I read him."
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Frazier has lived most of his life in North Carolina, where he was a professor of American literature until he began raising horses. He devoted more than five years to the writing of his first published novel, the phenomenally successful "Cold Mountain", which is based on an ancestor of his named Inman who, wounded in the Civil War, left the hospital in which he was recuperating for an arduous trek home.
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Farhan (another reviewer) had an apt description: "the prose is sparkling". Perhaps the finest showcase of artful language I've read in the past 10 years. Well worth the read.