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2016

Title:	The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead.
Author:	Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.
Format:	Book
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Doubleday, 2016.
Description:	306 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Underground Railroad -- Fiction. Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction. Fugitives from justice -- Fiction. African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- Fiction. Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. United States -- Race relations -- Fiction.
Genre:	Historical fiction.
Notes:	Oprah's book club. Pulitzer Price for Fiction, 2017.
ISBN:	9780385542364 9780345804327
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COLSON WHITEHEAD is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award, and named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. He lives in New York City. - (Random House, Inc.)

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award, and named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. He lives in New York City. - (Random House, Inc.)

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