Thirteen Moons: A Novel
Charles Frazier
Oct 2006 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Will Patton
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This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins – for a brief moment – a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will’s destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians – including a Cherokee Chief named Bear – he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee’s homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that “only desire trumps time.”
Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man’s passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man’s destiny over the many moons of a life.
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins – for a brief moment – a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will’s destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians – including a Cherokee Chief named Bear – he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee’s homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that “only desire trumps time.”
Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man’s passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man’s destiny over the many moons of a life.
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May 16, 2020
Best book I have ever read. Will Patton was the best narrator for this book
About the author
Charles Frazier grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. Cold Mountain, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller and won the National Book Award in 1997. His second novel, Thirteen Moons, was a New York Times bestseller and named a best book of the year by the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Will Patton has recorded more than 45 audio books. He has prominently offered his voice to the works of James Lee Burke, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and Al Gore's The Assault on Reason. He received the Best Male Narrator Audie Award. Patton has also worked extensively in theater and film. He has appeared in The Punisher, The Mothman Prophecies, Remember the Titans, Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds, and has appeared alongside Angelina Jolie.
Will Patton has recorded more than 45 audio books. He has prominently offered his voice to the works of James Lee Burke, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and Al Gore's The Assault on Reason. He received the Best Male Narrator Audie Award. Patton has also worked extensively in theater and film. He has appeared in The Punisher, The Mothman Prophecies, Remember the Titans, Armageddon, Gone in 60 Seconds, and has appeared alongside Angelina Jolie.
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