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The underground railroad : a novel

Author

Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.

Title

The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead.

Format

Book

Edition

First edition.

Published

New York : Doubleday, 2016.

Description

306 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

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. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.-- from publisher's description.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2017 National Book Award, Fiction, 2016

Subject headings

Underground Railroad--Fiction. Fugitive slaves--United States--Fiction. United States--History--19th century--Fiction.

Genre heading

Fiction. History. Historical fiction.

ISBN

9780385542364 (hardcover) 0385542364 (hardcover)