The underground railroad : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0385537034 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780385537032 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0385542364 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780385542364 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
306 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2016.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | 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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Subject: | United States History 19th century Fiction Fugitive slaves United States Fiction Underground Railroad Fiction Enslaved persons |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 80 of 81 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 1 current hold with 81 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION WHITEHEAD (Text) | 32518137584556 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ansonia Public Library | FIC WHITEHEAD, COLSON (Text) | 34045136852832 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | F Whi (Text) | 33110139363764 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | FIC WHI (Text) | 33120000378130 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC WHITEHE (Text) | 33750000066691 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F WHITEHEAD, C. (Text) | 32544072427916 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Whi (Text) | 33160137405505 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F WHITEHEAD (Text) | 34030136867238 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | FIC WHITEHEAD (Text) | 34000076218353 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF WHI (Text) | 33260000244641 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel
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The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. * Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's 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 brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. 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. Look for Colson Whitehead's new novel, Crook Manifesto , coming soon!