The Underground Railroad
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2017
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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.
Main title:
The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead.
Author:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-, author
Imprint:
London : Fleet, 2017.
Collation:
366 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2016.
Awards:
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2017The National Book Award
ISBN:
9780708898406 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
249399
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Bletchley Library | Adult fiction | Available | |
| Westcroft Library | Adult fiction | Available | |
| Wolverton Library | Adult fiction | Available |