Coal Run

Name: Coal Run
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Tawni O'Dell
ISBN: 9781429589383

Author: Tawni O'Dell

Narrator: Daniel Passer

Unabridged: 11 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/17/2004

Categories: Fiction, Psychological, Sagas, Small Town & Rural

Synopsis

With her eagerly awaited second novel, Tawni O'Dell takes readers back to the coal-mining country of western Pennsylvania. Set in a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men, Coal Run explores the life of local deputy and erstwhile football legend, "The Great Ivan Z.," as he prepares for a former teammate's imminent release from prison. As the week unfolds and Ivan struggles to confront his demons, he reveals himself to be a man whose conscience is burdened by a long-held and shocking secret.

About The Author

Tawni O’Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of Sister Mine, Coal Run, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah Book Club selection and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. She lives in Pennsylvania with her two children and her husband, literary translator Bernard Cohen. To learn more, visit tawniodell.com.Daniel Passer is an actor who has appeared in film, television, and stage productions. He was the lead clown and comedy conceptor for the world tour of Cirque du Soleil's spectacle Zarkana directed by François Girard. Passer has taught commedia/clown/improvisation at the Moscow Art Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Brown University, Harvard University, Cornell University, California Institute of the Arts, Trinity College, the Second City, University of Redlands, and University of Alaska. He is also a founding member of the clown troupes Your New Best Friends (World Stages, New York City), Gods of Sex, and The Rotten Plantains (45 Bleecker, New York City).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on March 21, 2024

The book's main protagonist, Ivan Zoschenko, has had a difficult life. Ivan grew up in Coal Run, a coal-mining town in Pennsylvania. In 1967, when Ivan was six-years-old, a mine explosion killed 96 men, including the boy's father - an immigrant from Ukraine. Ivan's mother carried on alone, doing her......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on February 04, 2010

This was the second Tawni O'Dell novel I read, and I found it a bit tedious. Again, I shouldn't say read, as I actually listened to the audio book, and I found myself getting frustrated with the protagonist - he was a boor, and I couldn't understand why his "love interest" was interested in him at a......more

Goodreads review by Asghar on October 13, 2021

It wasn't as good as her first published novel but let's be fair what can possibly top that? Nonetheless, this is still a good book by a great writer. On a side note: This woman is my hero, O'Dell writes like a writer and can be an inspiration to all genders. Love her style, work. And her intelligence......more

Goodreads review by Paul on February 04, 2012

Any discussion of Tawni O'Dell's novel Coal Run should begin with the novel's setting -- one that captures well the slow-motion tragedy that has enfolded many communities of America's Rust Belt. O'Dell's Coal Run, Pennsylvania, is an industrial ghost town that has been twice cursed. The first of Coa......more