The Underground Railroad : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1524736309
- ISBN: 9781524736309
- Physical Description: 417 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Oprah's Book Club : 2016 selection" -- cover. |
Summary, etc.: | Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their 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. |
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Subject: | Enslaved persons Underground Railroad Fiction Fugitive slaves United States Fiction Large type books United States History 19th century Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 16 of 16 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rockville Public Library. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 1 current hold with 16 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rockville Public Library | F WHI (Text) | 34035138466657 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | LP FIC WHI (Text) | 34014138115507 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | LRG PRI FIC WHI (Text) | 33400137925379 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | LP FIC WHITEHEAD,C (PBK) (Text) | 34026136968091 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | LTE F WHITEHEAD (Text) | 31953138190031 | Adult New Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | LARGE PRINT WHITEHEAD (Text) | 32518137588920 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | LP FIC WHI (Text) | 33420152944832 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Whi LP (Text) | 33620131411221 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | WHITEHEAD Colson (Text) | 34013143667775 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
New Milford Public Library | LP F WHITE (Text) | 34021137073728 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Electronic resources
The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel
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The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club) : A Novel
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. * Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. 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. Look for Colson Whitehead's new novel, Crook Manifesto , coming soon!