The Water Dancer: A Novel
(Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for
Average user rating: 3.5 stars
User ratings:
5 star
 
(8)
4 star
 
(5)
3 star
 
(13)
2 star
 
(3)
1 star
 
(1)
Author:
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Published:
Random House Publishing Group 2019
Format:
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Status:
Checked Out

Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
“This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle
IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films
NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal

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 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.
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.
Praise for The Water Dancer
“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations—and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.”—Rolling Stone

Also in This Series

Formats

Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
Sample 
OverDrive Read
Sample 
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.

More Like This

Other Editions and Formats

Choose a Format
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
On Shelf
Louisville Adult Books on CD
BOOKCD FIC COA
On Shelf
Louisville Large Print Fiction
LARGE PRINT FIC COA
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library

Borrower Reviews

Librarian Reviews

Published Reviews

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

Ta-Nehisi Coates. (2019). The Water Dancer: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2019. The Water Dancer: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2019.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Water Dancer: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2019.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

Copy Details

LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection20
Louisville Public Library00

There are 3 holds on this title.

Staff View

Grouped Work ID:
ded44b18-0a99-be8e-87f0-51582d9ea790
Go To Grouped Work

QR Code

API Extraction Dates

Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jul 11, 2019 14:46:52
Date Updated:
Dec 09, 2020 15:50:33
Last Metadata Check:
Nov 23, 2024 03:16:23
Last Metadata Change:
Nov 22, 2024 21:59:28
Last Availability Check:
Nov 23, 2024 03:16:25
Last Availability Change:
Nov 23, 2024 03:16:25
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Nov 23, 2024 03:16:15

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{FCFA7A3F-20DF-46EE-B185-D2B16387B7EA}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{FCFA7A3F-20DF-46EE-B185-D2B16387B7EA}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/FCF/A7A/3F/{FCFA7A3F-20DF-46EE-B185-D2B16387B7EA}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/FCF/A7A/3F/{FCFA7A3F-20DF-46EE-B185-D2B16387B7EA}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780399590603
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 550171
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B07NKMZT7T
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 550171
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780399590603
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 550171
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Ta-Nehisi Coates
title
The Water Dancer
dateAdded
2019-07-11T14:56:00-04:00
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=114&titleID=4639681
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Front Range Downloadable Library (CO)
          • id: 1100
sortTitle
Water Dancer A Novel
crossRefId
4639681
subtitle
A Novel
id
fcfa7a3f-20df-46ee-b185-d2b16387b7ea
starRating
3.9

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: TheWaterDancer_4639681
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 550171
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B07NKMZT7T
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 9/24/2019
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fcfa7a3f-20df-46ee-b185-d2b16387b7ea&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: TheWaterDancer_9780399590603_4639681
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780399590603
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 550171
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 9/24/2019
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fcfa7a3f-20df-46ee-b185-d2b16387b7ea&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: Oprah Winfrey
      • value: family
      • value: Juneteenth
      • value: racism
      • value: literary fiction
      • value: African American Literature
      • value: Black history
      • value: Paranormal
      • value: Justice
      • value: supernatural
      • value: Historical Fiction
      • value: science fiction and fantasy
      • value: Slavery
      • value: magical realism
      • value: race
      • value: Magic
      • value: fantasy novels
      • value: Underground Railroad
      • value: freedom
      • value: slave
      • value: book club recommendations
      • value: African American fiction
      • value: oprah's book club
      • value: oprah book club
      • value: black authors
      • value: Ta-Nehisi Coates
      • value: african american books
      • value: Literary gifts
      • value: black history books
      • value: new york times best sellers
      • value: books by black authors
      • value: water dancer
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Coates, Ta-Nehisi
      • bioText: Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.
      • name: Ta-Nehisi Coates
imprint
One World
publishDate
2019-09-24T00:00:00Z
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
The Water Dancer
fullDescription
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
“This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle
IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films
NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal

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 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.
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.
Praise for The Water Dancer
“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations—and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.”—Rolling Stone
popularity
2995
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BvwAAAA25/products/fcfa7a3f-20df-46ee-b185-d2b16387b7ea/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
    • shareInLibby:
        • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=wctGAEqDkIE
        • type: text/HTML
id
fcfa7a3f-20df-46ee-b185-d2b16387b7ea
starRating
3.9
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{FCFA7A3F-20DF-46EE-B185-D2B16387B7EA}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{FCFA7A3F-20DF-46EE-B185-D2B16387B7EA}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/FCF/A7A/3F/{FCFA7A3F-20DF-46EE-B185-D2B16387B7EA}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/FCF/A7A/3F/{FCFA7A3F-20DF-46EE-B185-D2B16387B7EA}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fantasy
      • value: Fiction
      • value: African American Fiction
      • value: Historical Fiction
publishDateText
09/24/2019
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780399590610
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
“This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle
IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films
NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste...
sortTitle
Water Dancer A Novel
crossRefId
4639681
awards
      • source: Notable Books Council
      • value: Notable Books for Adults
subtitle
A Novel
publisher
Random House Publishing Group
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC009030
      • description: Fiction / Fantasy / Historical
      • code: FIC049040
      • description: Fiction / African American & Black / Historical
      • code: FIC061000
      • description: Fiction / Magical Realism

More Copies In Prospector

Loading Prospector Copies...