The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead.
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- 9780708898406 (pbk.) :
- 813.6 23
- PS3573.H4768 U53 2017
- The Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2017
- The National Book Award
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | The Harden Library, King's Hospital | Fiction Section | F WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | LC 2024 | R17365J0499 |
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2016.
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.
The Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2017
The National Book Award
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