Book
The Underground Railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385542364 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 306 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Oprah's Book Club 2016 selection"--Jacket. |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC White | 31681010023265 | FICTION | Available | - |
| Lakeshore Branch | LP FIC White | 31681010027274 | LARGEPT | Available | - |
| Stroud Branch | FIC White | 31681010023281 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
After Cora, a slave in pre-Civil War Georgia, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South. - Random House, Inc.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ⢠NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ⢠"An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
One of The New York Timesâs 10 Best Books of the 21st Century ⢠A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century ⢠A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhoodâwhere greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.
As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondageâand a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
