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ISBN: 9781524736255
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
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Summary
Summary
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century
Winner of the 2016 National Book Award
Winner of the 2017 Carnegie Medal for Literature
A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century
A #1 New York Times Bestseller
Man Booker Prize Longlist Selection
Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award
An Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year for 2016
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
A Huffington Post Best Book of 2016
An NPR Best Book of 2016
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A 2016 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, Top 10 Selection
A People Pick of the Week
A BookPage Top Pick for September 2016
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD |
Category: | Fiction/Literary |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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