Thirteen Moons

Reviews / Votes

What makes it so appealing is the voice of Will Cooper, which is potent, wry, insightful and utterly convincing . . . as rich a fiction as it is an eventful one. * Andrew Rosenheim, <i>Time Literary Supplement</i> * 'THIRTEEN MOONS will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will's story will find their own lives enriched. THIRTEEN MOONS belongs to the ages.' * <i>LA Times</i> * 'Almost a decade since the publication of his bestseller Cold Mountain, Frazier has produced another no less-absorbing and richly textured account of America in the years leading up to and encompassing the Civil War. Frazier is adept not only at the set pieces. . . but also at the more intimate observations of people and places. It is this that makes his story both a powerful dramatisation of a shameful episode in American history and a compelling love story.' * Christina Konig, <i>The Times<i/> * Its narrative has a thoroughly human scale and informs just as much as it moves and entertains * Frank Egerton, <i>The Times </i> * The history that Frazier hauntingly unwinds through Will is as melodic as it is melancholy, but the sublime love story is the narrative's true heart. * <i>Publishers Weekly</i> * 'Frazier's keen observations and unforced, unsentimental depictions of animals are wonderful ... like the western it references, it's far-ranging, hard-fighting and soft-hearted.' * <i>Guardian<?i> * A novel whose prose is so carefully wrought that it reads like fragments of a long poem. * <i>Telegraph</i> * Frazier is a timeless master magician who renders the texture of the landscape, emotion and history all excruciatingly real * <i>Time Out</i> * It is this meeting of two conflicting ideas of personal and social history that gives Thirteen Moons its great wisdom. . . alive with wonder and adventure. Frazier is a wonderfully sensual writer * Richard Godwin, <i>Literary Review</i> *