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Title The water dancer [LARGE PRINT] : a novel / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Author Coates, Ta-Nehisi, author.
Publication Info. [New York, NY] : Random House Large Print, [2019]
©2019
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 Alafaya  LARGE FIC COA    Check Shelves
 Hiawassee  LARGE FIC COA    Check Shelves
 North Orange  LARGE FIC COA    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  LARGE FIC COA    Check Shelves
 Winter Garden  LARGE FIC COA    Check Shelves
Edition First large print edition.
Large print edition.
Description 558 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
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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.
Local Note LEASE 2019-10
Subject Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Genre Large type books.
Historical fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
ISBN 9780593168196 (large print, paperback) : $30.00
0593168194 (large print, paperback)