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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, A Novel
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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, A Novel Hardcover - 2016

by Whitehead, Colson

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NY: Doubleday, 2016. (USA) 24th printing of the first edition No markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket hardcover, 306pp. This novel was a New York Times Bestseller, apulitzer Prize Winner and a winner of the \National Book Award. The book is a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. (1.8 JM LVR 205/b2. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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  • Title THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, A Novel
  • Author Whitehead, Colson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doubleday, NY
  • Date 2016
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 07393
  • ISBN 9780385542364 / 0385542364
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 3.30 cm)
  • Reading level 890
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Underground Railroad
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016000643
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

From prize-winning, bestselling author 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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About the author

COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award, and named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. He lives in New York City.

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