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The Underground Railroad / Colson Whitehead.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Fleet, 2017.Description: 366 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780708898406 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3573.H4768 U53 2017
Awards:
  • The Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2017
  • The National Book Award
Summary: 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.
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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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