The Underground Railroad : a novel
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The Underground Railroad : a novel
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- Label
- The Underground Railroad : a novel
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Colson Whitehead
- Subject
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- Underground Railroad -- Fiction
- trueUnderground Railroad
- Underground Railroad
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueSlavery
- trueRacism
- trueRace (Social sciences)
- 1800-1899
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrican Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Social conditions | History -- Fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- trueAntebellum America (1820-1861) -- 1820 -- 1861
- trueEscapes
- FICTION / African American
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction
- trueFreedom
- trueFugitive slaves
- Fugitive slaves
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction
- Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Large type books
- trueLiterary fiction
- Large type books
- United States -- Race relations -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueUnited States -- History -- 19th century
- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. 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 re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2017.
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017.
- Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2016
- Goodreads Choice Award, 2016
- Hurston/Wright Legacy Award: Fiction, 2017.
- Indies' Choice Book Awards, Adult Fiction, 2017.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2016
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2016.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2016
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2017.
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3573.H4768
- LC item number
- U53 2016b
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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