The Underground Railroad /
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TextPublication details: London : Fleet, 2017Description: 366 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780708898406 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- FictionGenre/Form: Alternative histories (Fiction) | Historical. DDC classification: 813.6 LOC classification: PS3573.H4768Awards: The Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2017 | The National Book AwardSummary: 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.
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| F .W585 2016 And I darken / | F .W585 2017 Now I rise / | F .W585 2018 Bright we burn / | F .W592 2016 The Underground Railroad / | F .W592 2019 The nickel boys / | F .W671 1891 The picture of Dorian Gray / | F .W721 1944 The glass menagerie / |
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