TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitehead,Colson
TI  - The Underground Railroad
SN  - 9780708898406 (pbk.) :
AV  - PS3573.H4768 
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Fleet
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - 1775-1865
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Alternative histories (Fiction)
KW  - Historical
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2016
N2  - 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
ER  -