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NEW APPALACHIAN BOOKS--REVIEW ESSAY Ink That Will Last_ James B. Goode Silas House. The Coal Tattoo. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. 324 pages. Hardback $22.95. Henry David Thoreau's most famous observation was written in Jesse Stuart, James Still, and Harriette Arnow comes Silas House, Waiden when he said, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." In fiction there is power in the story of simple lives. Southern writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Joyce Carol Oates, and William Faulkner proved that there is much to be gleaned from these straightforward stories. This has also been true of Kentucky writers. Out of the tradition of great Kentucky writers like author now of three solid novels published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Jay McDonald, in a special to the News-Press, writes that "Kentuckian Silas House, one of a handful of hot young Southern novelists, has at least one thing in common with the Dixie Express himself, William Faulkner: both were postmen and loathed the experience." But House and Faulkner have more than just one thing in common; they both bring us extraordinary stories from seemingly ordinary people. House told Courtney Craig of
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 2005
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