Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead. - London : Fleet, 2017. - 366 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2016.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can.
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2017 The National Book Award
9780708898406 (pbk.) : �7.99
Southern States--History--1775-1865--Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Historical.
PS3573.H4768
813.6
The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead. - London : Fleet, 2017. - 366 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2016.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can.
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2017 The National Book Award
9780708898406 (pbk.) : �7.99
Southern States--History--1775-1865--Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Historical.
PS3573.H4768
813.6