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Publisher: Anchor
Author: Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780345804327
Fiction, Historical
The Underground Railroad
by
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad by
Colson Whitehead
Reviews
"The Underground Railroad is inquiring into the very soul of American democracy. . . . A stirring exploration of the American experiment."
The Wall Street Journal
Summary
Chronicles 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. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman’s will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
#1 New York Times Bestseller. Pulitzer Prize Winner. National Book Award Winner. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century.
