The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
- The National Book Award Winner and #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

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 womanhoodâ€”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 plannedâ€”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.
Â Â Â In Whiteheadâ€™s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphorâ€”engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesarâ€™s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the cityâ€™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.
Â Â Â Like the protagonist ofÂ Gulliverâ€™s Travels,Â Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journeyâ€”hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the preâ€“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.Â The Underground RailroadÂ is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one womanâ€™s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
Country USA
Brand Random House Audio
Manufacturer Random House Audio
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 9781524736255
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2016-08-02
UnitCount 1
Format Audiobook
EANs 9781524736255

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Audio
Manufacturer	Random House Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	9781524736255
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2016-08-02
UnitCount	1
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9781524736255

The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

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