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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -#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 ChronicleNOMINATED 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 Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped in its own vivid vocabulary. Entertainment Weekly 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 forThe 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. . . . Timelessandinstantly canon-worthy. Rolling Stone 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -#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 ChronicleNOMINATED 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 Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped in its own vivid vocabulary. Entertainment Weekly 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 forThe 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. . . . Timelessandinstantly canon-worthy. Rolling Stone 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies Golem Girlis luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young and mature woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six decades; and a hymn to life, love, family,and spirit. David Mitchell, author ofCloud AtlasWINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSWhat do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity Can we envision a world that sees impossible creatures In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive.Her parents and doctors are determined to 'fix' her, sending the message over and over again that she is broken.That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Enduring countless medical interventions, Riva tries her best to be a good girl and a good patient in the quest to be cured.Everything changes when, as an adult, Riva is invited to join a group of artists, writers, and performers who are building Disability Culture. Their work is daring, edgy, funny, and dark it rejects tropes that define disabled people as pathetic, frightening, or worthless. They insist that disability is an opportunity for creativity and resistance. Emboldened, Riva asks if she can paint their portraits inventing an intimate and collaborative process that will transform the way she sees herself, others, and the world. Each portrait story begins to transform the myths she s been told her whole life about her body, her sexuality, and other measures of normal.Written with the vivid, cinematic prose of a visual artist, and the love and playfulness that defines all of Riva's work,Golem Girlis an extraordinary story of tenacity and creativity. With the author's magnificent portraits featured throughout, this memoir invites us to stretch ourselves toward a world where bodies flow between all possible forms of what it is to be human. Not your typical memoir about what it s like to be disabled in a non-disabled world . . . Lehrer tells her stories about becoming the monster she was always meant to be: glorious, defiant, unbound, and voracious. Read it! Alice Wong, founder and director, Disability Visibility Project 448 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - In these 'urgently relevant essays,' the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me 'reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath' -including the election of Donald Trump. New York Times Bestseller - Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times - USA Today - Time - Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle - Essence - O: The Oprah Magazine - The Week - Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'We were eight years in power' was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America's 'first white president.' But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period-and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation's old and unreconciled history. Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective-the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president. We Were Eight Years in Power features Coates's iconic essays first published in The Atlantic, including 'Fear of a Black President,' 'The Case for Reparations,' and 'The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,' along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates's own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by a bracingly original assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era. We Were Eight Years in Power is a vital account of modern America, from one of the definitive voices of this historic moment. 'Essential . . . Coates's probing essays about race, politics, and history became necessary ballast for this nation's gravity-defying moment.'-The Boston Globe 400 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies Golem Girlis luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young and mature woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six decades; and a hymn to life, love, family,and spirit. David Mitchell, author ofCloud AtlasWINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSWhat do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity Can we envision a world that sees impossible creatures In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive.Her parents and doctors are determined to 'fix' her, sending the message over and over again that she is broken.That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Enduring countless medical interventions, Riva tries her best to be a good girl and a good patient in the quest to be cured.Everything changes when, as an adult, Riva is invited to join a group of artists, writers, and performers who are building Disability Culture. Their work is daring, edgy, funny, and dark it rejects tropes that define disabled people as pathetic, frightening, or worthless. They insist that disability is an opportunity for creativity and resistance. Emboldened, Riva asks if she can paint their portraits inventing an intimate and collaborative process that will transform the way she sees herself, others, and the world. Each portrait story begins to transform the myths she s been told her whole life about her body, her sexuality, and other measures of normal.Written with the vivid, cinematic prose of a visual artist, and the love and playfulness that defines all of Riva's work,Golem Girlis an extraordinary story of tenacity and creativity. With the author's magnificent portraits featured throughout, this memoir invites us to stretch ourselves toward a world where bodies flow between all possible forms of what it is to be human. Not your typical memoir about what it s like to be disabled in a non-disabled world . . . Lehrer tells her stories about becoming the monster she was always meant to be: glorious, defiant, unbound, and voracious. Read it! Alice Wong, founder and director, Disability Visibility Project.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Number line beginning with 1. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus dust jacket (U.S.A. $28.00 CANADA $37.00). Dust jacket has minor, if not trivial wear to tips of spine and one inch along edges at spine. Only trivial, if any additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Appears to be signed only by author with black felt-tipped pen on first blank page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book is brand new , signed , First edition. Signed by Author(s).