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100	1		_aWhitehead, Colson, _d1969- _9821
245	1	4	_aThe underground railroad / _cColson Whitehead.
260			_aLondon : _bFleet, _c2016.
300			_a306 p. ; _c24 cm
505	0		_aAjarry -- Georgia -- Ridgeway -- South Carolina -- Stevens -- North Carolina -- Ethel -- Tennessee -- Caesar -- Indiana -- Mabel -- The North.
520			_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. 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.
586			_aWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.
650		0	_aUnderground Railroad _vFiction _9823
650		0	_aFugitive slaves _zUnited States _vFiction _9822
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y19th century _vFiction _9614
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aWhitehead, Colson, 1969- author. _tUnderground railroad _dNew York : Doubleday, 2016 _z9780385537049 _w(DLC) 2016004953
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