Cold moutain is a 1997 historical novel by charless frazier which won the national book award for fiction. it tell the story of w.p.inman a wounded deserter from the confederate army near the end of the amercian civil war who walks for months to return to ada monore the love of jhis life the story shares several similarities with homers obessy. READABILLITY=enter a reader;s lexile measure to calculate his or her expected comprehension for this book and to view vocabulary targeted to his or her reading ability.