Whitehead, Colson
The Underground Railroad
- ISBN 13:
- 9780345804327
- author:
- Whitehead, Colson
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Anchor Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 20.07 x 12.95 x 2.29 centimetres
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
A young slave's desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South is the subject of this gripping novel. Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, embarks on a harrowing journey along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. As she travels from one state to the next, Cora encounters strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop, weaving together a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception brings to life the terrors of the antebellum era, re-creating the brutal abduction of Africans and the unfulfilled promises of the present day. This is both a gripping tale of one woman's will to escape bondage and a thought-provoking exploration of our nation's complex past.
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