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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 Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
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 Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).
This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
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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." --
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The water dancer : a novel
- Title
- The water dancer
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Subject
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- trueVirginia -- History
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
- truePhotographic memory
- truePlantation owners
- Plantations
- Plantations -- Fiction
- truePlantations -- Virginia
- trueRacism
- trueSlave families
- Slavery
- trueSlavery
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction
- trueSlaves -- Social conditions
- Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions
- Southern States
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- trueSuperhuman abilities
- trueUnderground Railroad
- trueUnited States -- History -- 19th century
- Virginia
- Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- 1800-1899
- trueAfrican Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- trueAncestors
- trueBoy slaves
- trueDrowning
- trueEscapes
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- trueFugitive slaves
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- History
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Magic realist fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- trueMothers
- trueNorthern States
- 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." --
- 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
- Awards note
- ALA Black Caucus Award, 2020 (First novel).
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- 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
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Slavery
- Plantations
- Virginia
- Plantations
- Slavery
- Virginia
- Southern States
- Label
- The water dancer : a novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1085585289
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9780241325254
- Lccn
- 2019011177
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40029447586
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1085585289
- Label
- The water dancer : a novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1085585289
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9780241325254
- Lccn
- 2019011177
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40029447586
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1085585289
Subject
- trueVirginia -- History
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
- truePhotographic memory
- truePlantation owners
- Plantations
- Plantations -- Fiction
- truePlantations -- Virginia
- trueRacism
- trueSlave families
- Slavery
- trueSlavery
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction
- trueSlaves -- Social conditions
- Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions
- Southern States
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- trueSuperhuman abilities
- trueUnderground Railroad
- trueUnited States -- History -- 19th century
- Virginia
- Virginia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- 1800-1899
- trueAfrican Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- trueAncestors
- trueBoy slaves
- trueDrowning
- trueEscapes
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fiction
- trueFugitive slaves
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- History
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Magic realist fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- trueMothers
- trueNorthern States
Genre
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- trueLoan Stars Favourites: 2019
- trueDiverse Literary Fiction
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2019
- trueLiterary Fiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Paperback Trade Fiction
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2020
- trueAfrican American Historical Fiction
- trueBCALA Literary Award: First Novelist Category
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