The Resource The water dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The water dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Resource Information
The item The water dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her, but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram's resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children, the violent and capricious separation of families, and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today's most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 558 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9780593168196
- Label
- The water dancer
- Title
- The water dancer
- Statement of responsibility
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- truePlantation owners
- Large print books
- trueUnderground Railroad
- trueHistorical fiction
- Virginia -- History -- Fiction
- trueEscapes
- trueFugitive slaves
- trueDrowning
- truePlantations -- Virginia
- trueRacism
- trueSlavery
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueNorthern States
- trueSlave families
- trueSlaves -- United States -- Social conditions
- trueMagical realism
- trueBoy slaves
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- trueVirginia -- History
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueAntebellum America (1820-1861) -- 1820 -- 1861
- trueAfrican Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
- trueSuperhuman abilities
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction
- trueAncestors
- trueMothers
- truePhotographic memory
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her, but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram's resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children, the violent and capricious separation of families, and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today's most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen
- Summary
- A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery
- Award
-
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2019.
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2019.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10804704
- Cataloging source
- BYV
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slavery
- Virginia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The water dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066087944
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 558 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780593168196
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1120035993
- Label
- The water dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066087944
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 558 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780593168196
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1120035993
Subject
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrican Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- trueAncestors
- trueAntebellum America (1820-1861) -- 1820 -- 1861
- trueBoy slaves
- trueDrowning
- trueEscapes
- trueFugitive slaves
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large print books
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMagical realism
- trueMothers
- trueNorthern States
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
- truePhotographic memory
- truePlantation owners
- truePlantations -- Virginia
- trueRacism
- trueSlave families
- trueSlavery
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction
- trueSlaves -- United States -- Social conditions
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- trueSuperhuman abilities
- trueUnderground Railroad
- trueVirginia -- History
- Virginia -- History -- Fiction
Genre
- trueAfrican American fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large print books
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMagical realism
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