The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead
- Bib ID:
- 7284397
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Whitehead, Colson, 1969-, author
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Description:
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- New York : Doubleday, [2016]
- 306 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
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- 0385542364 (hardcover)
- 9780385542364 (hardcover)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9780385542371 (electronic book)
- Summary:
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their 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 re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day.
- Subject:
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- African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- Fiction
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction
- Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
- Underground Railroad -- Fiction
- Southern States -- 19th century -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- United States -- Race relations -- Fiction
- United States
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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