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| The Coal Tattoo [Audiobook] [Cd] | ![The Coal Tattoo [Audiobook] [Cd]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31%2BQzVyuyaL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Author: Silas House
Category: Book
Buy Used: $62.95
Format: Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
ASIN: B000R3GP36
Publication Date: 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: No wear or scratches, but not in original box, unabridged on 9 compact disks, shipped same day, satisfaction guaranteed.
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Product Description
Unabridged on nine compact discs. From Publishers WeeklyEvocative prose and unforgettable characters mark this haunting novel from House, a Kentucky writer who mines the storytelling tradition of Appalachia. Set in the 1960s, the novel functions as a prequel of sorts to House's award-winning book Clay's Quilt, offering two sisters who are as different as night and day. Annethwho will become Clay's motheris a wild-blooded manic depressive determined to suck joy from life, while her older sister Easter, a deeply religious Pentecostal woman with the gift of foresight, has "decided to walk through life like a whisper." House paints both characters lovingly and unsentimentally, charting how each remains devoted to the other through tragedy and a battle to hold on to the one constant that unites them in a turbulent world: their land. As they fight to protect their mountain from the mining company that wants to clear the earth and strip it bare, the sisters make sacrifices for one another that will grip the reader. House has a gift for understanding the cadences of mountain folk religion and the way that music sustains people's spirits. The titular image of the coal tattooa bluish tinge that seeps under a miner's skin and leaves a permanent stainis a perfect metaphor for the novel's depiction of the indelible imprint the land leaves on the human soul. Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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