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100	1		_aWhitehead, Colson, _d1969- _eauthor. _919913
245	1	4	_aThe Underground Railroad / _cColson Whitehead.
260			_aLondon : _bFleet, _c2017.
300			_a366 pages ; _c20 cm
500			_aOriginally published: New York: Doubleday, 2016.
520	8		_aCora 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.
586			_aThe Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2017
586			_aThe National Book Award
651		0	_aSouthern States _xHistory _y1775-1865 _vFiction. _919914
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