The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead
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TextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: 306 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780385542364 (hardcover); 0385542364 (hardcover)Subject(s): 1800-1899 | Underground Railroad -- Fiction | Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction | FICTION / Literary | FICTION / Historical | FICTION / African American / General | Fugitive slaves | Underground Railroad | United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | United StatesGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Historical fiction. | Fiction. | History.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Underground railroadDDC classification: 813/.54 Online resources: Cover image Awards: National Book Award, 2016Summary: A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum SouthSummary: 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
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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
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