Thirteen Moons (novel)
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Thirteen Moons is a historical novel published in October 2006 by American author Charles Frazier, his second book after the award-winning Cold Mountain.
Frazier’s Thirteen Moons is the story of one man’s life, spanning a century of immense change.[1] It is primarily set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in America. A 12-year-old orphan, Will Cooper, is given a horse, a key, and a map, and then sent on a journey through the wilderness near the Cherokee Nation, in what is now North Carolina. When Will is discovered by the native Americans, he is adopted by the Cherokee Nation and its chief.
Thirteen Moons leads the reader from the wilderness of an unspoiled continent, across the South, up and down the Mississippi River, and then into a new capitol, Washington, D.C.Washington City. All throughout this tale, Will admires the beauty of the nineteenth century while living amidst the era of a changing continental domestication; the early 20th century. With its rich historical tapestry, woven throughout vivid scenes of early American grandeur, Thirteen Moons again evokes the style and imagery of early America by the gifted author.
