The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead.
Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.
2016
PS3573.H4768 U53 2016 (Mapit)
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Title The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead.
Author Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780385542364 (hardcover)
0385542364 (hardcover)
Published New York : Doubleday, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 306 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number PS3573.H4768 U53 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.54
Summary Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their 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.-- from publisher's description.
Awards National Book Award, 2016.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017.
Pulitzer Prize, 2017.
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Ajarry
Georgia
Ridgeway
South Carolina
Stevens
North Carolina
Ethel
Tennessee
Caesar
Indiana
Mabel
The North.

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