The Resource The water dancer : a novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The water dancer : a novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The item The water dancer : a novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- "Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery 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, all Hiram wants is to return to the Walker Plantation to free the family he left behind--but to do so, he must first master his magical gift and reconstruct the story of his greatest loss. This is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by the author's bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America's oldest struggle--the struggle to tell the truth--from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399590597
- Label
- The water dancer : a novel
- Title
- The water dancer
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Subject
-
- trueSuperhuman abilities
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- trueAfrican American fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- trueAfrican Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- trueAncestors
- trueAntebellum America (1820-1861) -- 1820 -- 1861
- trueBoy slaves
- trueDrowning
- trueEscapes
- Fantasy fiction
- trueFugitive slaves
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Magic realist fiction
- trueMagical realism
- trueMothers
- trueNorthern States
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
- truePhotographic memory
- truePlantation owners
- Plantations -- Fiction
- truePlantations -- Virginia
- trueRacism
- Racism -- Fiction
- trueSlave families
- trueSlavery
- trueSlaves -- United States -- Social conditions
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction
- Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueVirginia -- History
- trueUnderground Railroad
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery 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, all Hiram wants is to return to the Walker Plantation to free the family he left behind--but to do so, he must first master his magical gift and reconstruct the story of his greatest loss. This is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by the author's bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America's oldest struggle--the struggle to tell the truth--from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers"--
- 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
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- ALA Notable Book, 2020.
- BCALA Literary Award for First Novelist, 2020.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2019.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2019.
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2019.
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2019.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10804704
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3603.O17
- LC item number
- W38 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slavery
- Racism
- African Americans
- Plantations
- Virginia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The water dancer : a novel, 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399590597
- Lccn
- 2019011177
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1119537942
- (OCoLC)1119537942
- Label
- The water dancer : a novel, 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
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399590597
- Lccn
- 2019011177
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1119537942
- (OCoLC)1119537942
Subject
- trueSuperhuman abilities
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- trueAfrican American fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- trueAfrican Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- trueAncestors
- trueAntebellum America (1820-1861) -- 1820 -- 1861
- trueBoy slaves
- trueDrowning
- trueEscapes
- Fantasy fiction
- trueFugitive slaves
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Magic realist fiction
- trueMagical realism
- trueMothers
- trueNorthern States
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
- truePhotographic memory
- truePlantation owners
- Plantations -- Fiction
- truePlantations -- Virginia
- trueRacism
- Racism -- Fiction
- trueSlave families
- trueSlavery
- trueSlaves -- United States -- Social conditions
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction
- Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueVirginia -- History
- trueUnderground Railroad
Genre
- trueMagical realism
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueFantasy fiction
Included in
- trueBCALA Literary Award: First Novelist Category
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2020
- trueAfrican American Historical Fiction
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2019
- trueLoan Stars Favourites: 2019
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Audio Fiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Fiction
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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