02494cam a2200541 i 4500 21391 21391 933420484 OSt 20190501224149.0 160129s2016 nyu 000 1 eng 2016000643 9780385542364 (hardcover) 0385542364 (hardcover) (OCoLC)933420484 (OCoLC)951452940 pcc n-us--- 813/.54 23 W59352 .u Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead First edition New York : Doubleday, [2016] 306 pages ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 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. 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 National Book Award, 2016 1800-1899 fast Underground Railroad Fiction Fugitive slaves United States Fiction FICTION / Literary. bisacsh FICTION / Historical. bisacsh FICTION / African American / General. bisacsh Fugitive slaves. fast (OCoLC)fst00935940 Underground Railroad. fast (OCoLC)fst01160987 United States History 19th century Fiction United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 Historical fiction. gsafd Historical fiction. lcgft Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Online version: Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author. Underground railroad New York : Doubleday, 2016 9780385537049 (DLC) 2016004953 Cover image 9780385537032.jpg .b14624476x ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2017-01-03 26.95 5 0 WHIT 36353 2020-12-23 2020-03-05 2017-01-03 BOOK