The underground railroad /
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
The underground railroad / Colson Whitehead. - London : Fleet, 2016. - 306 p. ; 24 cm
Ajarry --
Georgia --
Ridgeway --
South Carolina --
Stevens --
North Carolina --
Ethel --
Tennessee --
Caesar --
Indiana --
Mabel --
The North.
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. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.
9780708898376
Underground Railroad--Fiction
Fugitive slaves--United States--Fiction
United States--History--19th century--Fiction
Historical fiction.
813
The underground railroad / Colson Whitehead. - London : Fleet, 2016. - 306 p. ; 24 cm
Ajarry --
Georgia --
Ridgeway --
South Carolina --
Stevens --
North Carolina --
Ethel --
Tennessee --
Caesar --
Indiana --
Mabel --
The North.
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. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.
9780708898376
Underground Railroad--Fiction
Fugitive slaves--United States--Fiction
United States--History--19th century--Fiction
Historical fiction.
813