Bibliograph

The water dancer, a novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The water dancer, a novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The water dancer

Oclc number

1085585289

Responsibility statement

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of alll 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 idealistic 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

Target audience

general

Classification