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IT'S OFFICIAL: Charles Frazier's haunting Civil War novel, "Cold Mountain," climbed to the No. 1 position on the New York Times Best-seller List on Sunday. "Cold Mountain's" ascension is one of those rare achievements that has the book world cheering it on: a serious work by a first-time novelist whose success is built one reader at a time. Frazier, a one-time American literature professor turned North Carolina horse rancher, devoted more than five years of his life to writing "Cold Mountain." He seems as surprised as anyone by the success of his book, which has been bought for $1.25 million by MGM/UA for a movie under the direction of Anthony Minghella, who brought "The English Patient" to the screen. Not much has changed at his mountain home, which he shares with his wife and daughter. In the book tour diary he's been keeping for Salon, Frazier compared himself to "a doughnut-shop waitress winning the lottery and keeping her job." How's it feel to become a literary sensation at the not-so-easily dazzled age of 46? What is the next novel stirring within him? Is it true that Cormac McCarthy was his primary inspiration?
Readers will be able to put these and other questions directly to Frazier in Table Talk and read the answers on Thursday, Sept. 11, when the author drops by Salon's San Francisco office to go online. So start mulling over some good questions and posting them in the "Cold Mountain" - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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