Large print book
The water dancer : a novel / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593168196
- ISBN: 0593168194
- Physical Description: 558 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Oprah's book club 2019."--Cover. |
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| Subject: | Slavery > Southern States > History > Fiction. Large type books. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Allard Branch | LP COA (Text) | 37842000809816 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kaslo and District Public Library | LP COA (Text) | 35134000434767 | Large Print | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-30 |
| Morden Library | LP F Coa (Text) | 35864002533501 | Large Print | Volume hold | Available | - |
