The Coal Tattoo
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  • modern day steinbeck
  • A Wonderful glimpse into Appalachia
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  • A beautifully written story...
The Coal Tattoo
Silas House
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ASIN: 1565123689

Book Description

In coal country, when a miner survives the collapse of a mine, he'll often surface with a permanent mark stamped onto his skin--a greenish blue imprint, sometimes jagged-edge, sometimes smooth--a symbol of endurance and sacrifice. A coal tattoo. In Silas House's new novel, everyone who's raised in Black Banks is indelibly marked by and forever connected to the place, which is how it is for Anneth and Easter.

At the heart of The Coal Tattoo is the story of these two sisters who can't live together, but can't bear to be apart. Left to raise themselves in a small coal mining town in Tennessee, Anneth and Easter are as different as night and day. One worships the flashy world of Nashville, the other is a devout Pentecostal. One falls into the lap of any man, the other is too afraid to date. Both are looking for a way to come to terms with their mother's abandonment. Anneth, just sixteen, takes off to Nashville and elopes, while Easter, weathering her own young marriage, faces a crisis of faith.

For both sisters, their journey will bring them back to the land and to each other.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars modern day steinbeck.......2007-10-10

Oh how I loved this book! It is the type of novel I have been craving for a long time. It has the works - memorable well fleshed-out characters; evocative descriptions (which I read over and over because they were so gorgeous); clarity and fluency of prose; credibility in narration; subtle humour; wise observations about life; emotional depth (how can a man write like this about girlie stuff?). I fell in love with the Appalachian Mountains through the story and want to visit there now (I live In Australia). I have never been to the States before but I suppose I'm kind of hoping I'll run into Clay and Easter...the characters are that real!

5 out of 5 stars A Wonderful glimpse into Appalachia.......2007-09-04

Not many writers are able to describe with such detail the connection to the land, as Silas House. A great story of those having to leave the area to find a job, fighting the broad form deed of the late 60's and early 70's and the surface mining for coal that abused it. The style is reminiscent of Jesse Stuart and William Faulkner. Mr. House has done a great service to these hills I call home and wish him the best in the future.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent book .......2007-09-03

This is the 3rd House novel I've read. He just keeps getting better and better. This novel is very well written, but key to its grip on the reader are House's empathy for his characters and his ability to portray their inner lives. Here, we have the story of Anneth (Clay's mother from Clay's Quilt) and her older sister Easter. These two sisters are remarkably different, but they are bound together by a fierce love for each other and for the land. Anneth is 17 & Easter is 22 when the novel opens. Anneth's wildness is in stark contrast to Easter's strong conservative streak. Indeed, it is quite plausible that Easter is forced to be more rigid than she would otherwise be because of her sense of responsibility for Anneth's welfare. Anneth seems to recognize her own faults, but that does not help her overcome them. I felt pity for Anneth despite my frustration with her decisions. As for Easter, Anneth respects and loves her, but thinks (rightly) that Easter herself doesn't really experience life because she's so hemmed in by her religious faith and her notions of propriety. Further, Easter's expectations that her husband live as she does puts strain on her marriage. To avoid spoiling the book, I won't reveal any more plot details. If you've read House's other novels, you will recognize some of the other characters who appear in this book. However, you don't have to read House's other books to get a great deal of enjoyment from this one. This novel is "about" many things - battling personal demons, living through hard times and coming through a better person (Easter), taking a firm stand to defend what you value. In the most general sense, it's about the events that shape a person's life via her interpretations of the meaning of those events. Both sisters are profoundly affected, albeit in different ways, by childhood sorrow.

5 out of 5 stars breathtaking.......2006-11-13

This is a wonderful story. I haven't read anything else by House but will be checking out his other novels soon. I read this book 2 years ago when it was reviewed by the Nashville Scene, when I was closer to understanding Kentucky, coal and mountains. Now that I'm reading it in a different part of the country, it just reminds me of the people I know who are from there, the salt of the earth.

5 out of 5 stars A beautifully written story..........2006-10-11

THE COAL TATTOO is a beautifully written story of the love between two sisters. Anneth and Easter are well defined and real. This is also a story of the love of land, home and life. Religion, faith and music play important parts in this story.

One aspect of the book that I personally found intersting was House's decision to tell us nothing of the love life of the very religious Easter and her husband El, but quite a bit about the wild, fun-loving Anneth's. It may have been more interesting if it had been the other way around. Regardless, Silas House has quickly become one of my favorite authors and I highly recommend this wonderful book.
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    Marked by the land.(Coal Tatto by Silas House)(Book Review): An article from: Sojourners
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      Marked by the land.(Coal Tatto by Silas House)(Book Review): An article from: Sojourners
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        The Coal Tattoo
        Silas House
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          The Coal Tattoo [Audiobook] [Cd]
          Silas House
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          Unabridged on nine compact discs. From Publishers Weekly Evocative 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.

          The Dracula Tape
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • He Lives!!!!
          • The Dracula Tape
          • Sympathy for...Who?
          • Dracula Exonerated!
          • The Count Tells All
          The Dracula Tape
          Fred Saberhagen
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          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars He Lives!!!!.......2007-09-11

          This book is fantastic. Especially for those of us who always knew that Dracula never died. His side of the story was long over due. A very refreshing work from this often misunderstood being. He Lives!!!!

          3 out of 5 stars The Dracula Tape.......2007-01-10

          As with Seance for a Vampire, it it lacking. Poor structure, sad character development. Didn't hold my interest.

          5 out of 5 stars Sympathy for...Who?.......2006-07-27

          Saberhagen does an excellent job of providing the 'other' side of Stoker's Dracula. Concise, yet deep, this book reveals a side of Dracula that we always suspected was there, but Van Helsing's passionate prejudice wouldn't let us believe in. I heartily recommend this book to all vampire afcionados.

          4 out of 5 stars Dracula Exonerated!.......2005-10-28

          I didn't want to like this book; I didn't want to think of Dracula as a person in his own right who had been deeply sullied by Harker and Van Helsing. Yet that's what happened by the time I finished reading this great book. If you read it without having read "Dracula," by Bram Stoker, you'll miss an awful lot of inuendos. I would definitely read Stoker's book first if you haven't already. Then read Saberhagen's book and be prepared to be highly entertained. What a marvelous sense of humor Saberhagen's Dracula has. I loved the way he sardonically ridicules Van Helsing. By the time you finish this book, you'll have a refreshing new viewpoint of what actually happened, for Saberhagen follows the events of Stoker's book quite closely. And all from Dracula's viewpoint. Highly recommended.

          5 out of 5 stars The Count Tells All.......2005-06-20

          Bram Stoker wrote Dracula as a series of mostly diary entries and correspondence between characters. One of the few characters who apparently didn't keep a diary was the Count himself. Therefore, the reader never gets Dracula's point of view.
          In The Dracula Tape, Fred Saberhagen rectifies this omission. The premise is great: Dracula is alive (unalive?) and well in the 1970s (when the book was first published), and has decided that it's time to tell the world What Really Happened. So he discovers the whereabouts of one of the descendants of Jonathan and Mina Harker, makes sure he has a tape player handy, and begins to tell him, and us, his story.
          The tale he spins makes a few things clear. For example:
          What was really wrapped in the bundle Jonathan saw Dracula bring his three brides?
          What really happened to the captain and crew of the Czarina Catherine?
          Why did Dracula change Lucy into a vampire?
          Why did Dracula kill Renfield?
          And finally, Why has Dracula chosen this time to tell his story? (The answer to that question is revealed at the end of the book; I'll not divulge it here!)
          Dracula's voice is full of humor and wit, but also of sarcasm and occasional contempt, especially for Van Helsing, "the imbecile."
          Since The Dracula Tape is essentially a retelling of Stoker's novel, I would recommend reading Stoker first, if you haven't already done so.
          I bought my copy of The Dracula Tape years ago when I saw it on a stand at the supermarket. The blurb said something like "The truth behind the events so shamefully misrepresented by Bram Stoker", and I knew I just had to have it. It's been one of my favorite books ever since!
          Dracula (Classical Literature with Classical Music)
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • A Classic
          • "For the dead travel fast"
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          • The Vampire Masterpiece
          • "This night our feet must tread in thorny paths or later and forever the feet you love must walk in flame."
          Dracula (Classical Literature with Classical Music)

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          ASIN: 9626341157
          Release Date: 1999-10-25

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          Dracula is perhaps almost as interesting regarded historically as the product of a specific time as it is engaging to continuing generations of readers in a 'timeless' fashion. In her introduction Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. At the same time she is entirely attuned to the ways in which, however much Dracula is a Victorian text, Dracula is a very twentieth-century character, a representative of modernity and of the future.

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          A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.

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          5 out of 5 stars A Classic.......2007-09-21

          This is an all time classic with vampire films still being made today, though light years away from the Bela Lugosi version. Someone travels to a castle to do business only to get more than he bargained for as the owner of the estate is Count Dracula, a bloodthirsty vampire hungry for Jonathan Harker's blood. The source novel is not the first vampire novel, that would be Lafenu's Carmilla who had a lesbian female vampire. Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula is the closest film adaption to the novel, though in the film his motivation was love and not blood lust. The piece of cheese just about says it all, stay away from this unless you're into gothic novels and are on Welfare. The price is a bargain for such a lush portrayal of 1890s Irish gothic culture. Though many have heard of vampires in society and E, few have actually read the novel. This will be my third time reading it straight through. I guess I dress kind of men's gothic, turn of last century style but I don't let it influence me; gothic has always been a part of white European and American culture from the pilgrims landing on the flower to peasants in Europe. God bless.

          5 out of 5 stars "For the dead travel fast".......2007-09-06

          Surprisingly "Denn die Toten reiten schnell" or "For the dead travel fast" is more than an opening line to this tale of love in the dangerous moon light. After watching several Drac movies and a few Nosferatu's, I pretty much though I had a handle on the genera. Little did I know what a wonderful world of mystery and suspense that Bram Stoker opened up for me.

          The story is told mostly third party though the papers, diaries, and phonograph recordings (on wax calendars) of those people involve in a tale so bizarre that it almost defies belief. The general story line is that of a Count that plans to move to a more urban setting (from Borgo Pass to London) where there is a richer diet. There he finds succulent women; something he can sing his teeth in. Unfortunately for him a gang of ruffians (including a real-estate agent, asylum director, Texas cowboy and an Old Dutch abnormal psychologist) is out to detour his nocturnal munching. They think they have Drac on the run but with a wing and a prayer he is always one step ahead.

          Of more value to the reader is the rich prose chosen by Stoker as he describes the morals and technology of the time. We have to come to grips with or decide if we can perform the rituals that are required to eliminate vampires verses the impropriety of opening graves and staking loved ones. The powers in the book differ from the movie versions in that they are more of persuasion and capabilities to manipulate the local weather. At one point the Dutch Dr. Van Helsing, is so overwhelmed by a beautiful vampire laying in the grave that he almost for gets why he is there and may become vamp chow.

          All in all the story is more in the cunning chase. And the question as to will they succeed or will Dracula triumph. Remember "For the dead travel fast."

          4 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 Stars...A Muted Masterpiece.......2007-07-26

          I've always been a fan of stories in which good and evil are pitted against each other, with humans caught in between. This theme is universal, though often repetitive, even preachy, in nature. In reading Stoker's "Dracula," I was surprised to find one of the modern forerunners for this type of gothic struggle. Sure, it has blo od-sucking and violence. Sure, it carries slightly ero tic undertones. But the story is first and foremost a spiritual battle, with humans as victims and/or heroes of war.

          Jonathan Harker is a London solicitor sent on business to Transylvania. He is a guest of his client, Count Dracula. Soon, though, Harker realizes he is a prisoner. And the battle begins.

          Back in England, a ship arrives in grim style on the waves of a storm. A sweet young woman becomes a victim of Dracula's schemes. And Harker's fiancee finds herself caught up in an epic struggle for the lives of those around her. Drawn into the struggle as the standard-bearer, Professor Van Helsing leads a band of intrepid humans against this otherworldy evil.

          Stoker's book is tame by today's standards, even quaint, but his attention to dark and gloomy atmosphere, provides a perfect counterpoint for the shining, valiant hearts of his band of heroes. In his day, Stoker's story must've been fast-paced, nail-biting, and horrific. Today, it stands as a muted masterpiece of horror, showing that we don't need lots of blo od-and-guts to keep us intrigued. Using religious references and decisions of personal integrity, "Dracula" shows us a battle against evil that still wages. In that sense, it's as current and apropos as ever.

          5 out of 5 stars The Vampire Masterpiece.......2007-07-23

          Now that vampire stories are popular again (and thank God for that), it's easy to forget what they were like before Anne Rice got her hands on them. That's not to say anything bad about Rice, incidentally--she's the reigning contemporary vampire queen, and many vampire writers follow her lead these days (or try to). But when Bram Stoker invented this genre with this iconic novel, the vampire was a thing of pure dread and pure evil. There's precious little reader seduction here (which is the characterizing difference of Anne Rice's creations); no, in Dracula, when the characters are seduced, the reader cringes, turns on another light, and drinks more heavily into the succeeding chapters ...

          Some who have reviewed this book have called it slow, boring, Victorian in the extreme ... well, they say there's no arguing taste, but I think I'll have a try, anyway. The fact is, most of what passes for "scary" these days has to do with instant fright gratification (which, by the way, I'm all in favor of), splashing gore, vividly-described mutilations. Stoker works his flame of fear up from the embers, burning slowly, until by the time you hear the rising scream, you've scarcely realized it's your own. There's a lot that happens "off camera", you might say, hinted at in the journal writings. The reader must infer for full effect; the terror is not served up on an easily handled tray, like cafeteria food. Dracula is literature, enjoyed at several levels, but it is also an excellent pulp horror story, told in the traditions of its time. It's lack of universal appeal in this modern age simply shows that it has not ... aged well, I suppose. But I loved it.

          For myself, when I write, I'm a creature of this age, an unapologetic purveyor of in-you-face, vividly described scary stories. But the classics have, for me, a distinct and pleasing flavor virtually unimitable by the modern writer. And keeping in touch with your roots is, I think, a good thing.

          (This review has been posted by Marcus Damanda, author of the vampire book "Teeth: a Horror Fantasy".)

          4 out of 5 stars "This night our feet must tread in thorny paths or later and forever the feet you love must walk in flame.".......2007-03-18

          Written in 1897, Stoker's Dracula is a classic of British fiction, fascinating for its subject matter and still the subject of films a hundred years later. Count Dracula, the epitome of evil, is exotic enough to keep even the most jaded reader of his exploits interested in their outcome, and grounded enough in the reality of evil to make even doubters wonder whether evil can be transmitted from one person to another against one's will.

          The novel begins with the arrival of Jonathan Harker, a lawyer representing a London real estate agency, at the Transylvanian castle of Count Dracula to clinch the deal by which the count will move to a British estate. Details about Harker's arrival by coach, his greeting at the castle, which has no doors except the front door, his reception by the count (who has hair on the palms of his hands), and his instructions regarding where he may go or not go within the castle set the tone and establish the mysterious background of the count and a sense of dread regarding the outcome for Harker.

          By the time that Harker recovers from a long and mysterious illness and returns home, the count, already in London, has turned Lucy, a lovely ingenue, into a vampire. Dr. Van Helsing, a German expert on vampires hired by her family, saves her several times from what appears to be severe anemia and recommends ringing her room with garlic and making sure that she has crucifixes around her. When Dracula then turns his blood-thirsty attention to Mina, fiancée of Jonathan Harker and friend of the unfortunate Lucy, the scene is set for a showdown regarding Dracula's power vs. the power of goodness and traditional religion.

          Stoker takes his story beyond sheer melodrama, eliciting sympathy for the afflicted victims of Dracula while also recreating the religious atmosphere of the period and the beliefs and doubts of average citizens. The novel is far more compelling than I expected, creating suspense at the same time that it develops the character of the count with his supernatural powers. The climax in which the forces of good are ranged against the forces of evil in the shape of the count, whose long history is detailed in the novel, is truly a conflict between traditional religion and evil in the form of Satan personified. Fun to read and surprisingly affecting. Mary Whipple
          The Dracula Tape
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            The Dracula Tape
            Fred Saberhagen
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            Those of you who have read THE HOLMES/DRACULA FILE and AN OLD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY now know that Vlad Tepes, known more widely as Count Dracula, is one of nature's noblemen, not the vile monster portrayed by Bram Stoker and his imitators. Perhaps you are now ready for the true story of the events surrounding the Count's first sojourn in England in the Year of Our Lord 1891...
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              Bram Stoker , and Robert Louis Stevenson
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              Dracula (Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio))
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                Bram Stoker
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                ASIN: 1590862872
                Release Date: 2002-08-28

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                Perhaps the most famous vampire story of all time, and the most popular, Dracula is recreated in its entirety in this unabridged audio program. The story of Dracula has been retold and recreated many times in film and on the stage in the last hundred years. Yet, it is essentially a Victorian saga, an awesome tale of a thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities embody the dark underside of an outwardly moralistic age. Dracula represents all the hidden and repressed power of male and female sexuality, of animal lust, and passion unleashed. Above all, Dracula is a quintessential story of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying creatures in literature: centuries-old Count Dracula.

                Near the beginning of this tale, Jonathan Harker knows little of what is in store when he receives the following letter:

                "My friend - Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well tonight. At three tomorrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and bring you to me.

                Your friend, Dracula."
                Dracula (Heinemann Guided Readers)
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                  The Dracula Murders (Soundings)
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                    The Dracula Murders (Soundings)
                    Philip Daniels
                    Manufacturer: Soundings
                    ProductGroup: Book
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                    The Dracula Tape
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                      The Dracula Tape
                      Fred Saberhagen
                      Manufacturer: Warner
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                      ASIN: 0446788694
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                        Nicholas Yermakov
                        Manufacturer: Ace Books
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                        THE DRACULA TAPE
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                          THE DRACULA TAPE
                          Fred Saberhagen
                          Manufacturer: Ace Books
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Paperback
                          ASIN: B000S2VDKG

                          Books:

                          1. The Conspirators Hierarchy: The Committee of Three Hundred
                          2. The Edge of Honor (Bookcassette(r) Edition)
                          3. The Future Has a Past: Stories
                          4. The Good Doctor: A Novel
                          5. The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery
                          6. The Last Friend: A Novel
                          7. The Last September
                          8. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (New York Review Books Classics)
                          9. The Little House in the Fairy Wood
                          10. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

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