The underground railroad : a novel
Book |
First edition. |
Doubleday,
New York ;
[2016]
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About
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her of the Underground Railroad and they plot their escape. Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds on each leg of her journey. Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors of black life in pre-Civil War America. 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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Details
- ISBN: 0385542364
- ISBN: 9780385542364
- Physical Description: 306 pages.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York ; Doubleday, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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General Note:
"Oprah's book club, 2016 selection"--Cover.
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Awards Note:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2017National Book Award for Fiction, 2016.