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008			160819s2016 nyu e 000 1 eng d
010			_a2016000643
020			_a9780349726809
035			_a(OCoLC)933420484
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082			_a813.6 WHI
100	1		_aWhitehead, Colson, _d1969-, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe underground railroad : _ba novel / _cColson Whitehead.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c[2016].
300			_a306 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_aA magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
520			_a "Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's 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. Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share."--From publisher.
586			_a2016 National Book Award for Fiction (U.S.)
586			_a2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction.
586			_a2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
650		0	_aUnderground Railroad _vFiction.
650		0	_aFugitive enslaved persons _zUnited States _vFiction.
650		0	_aEnslavement _vFiction.
650		7	_aHistorical fiction _2genre.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y19th century _vFiction.
651		0	_aSouthern States _vFiction.
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