Title:
The underground railroad / Colson Whitehead.
ISBN:
9780385542364
9780593314760
9780345804327
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2016]
©2016
Physical Description:
306 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
Special features, paginations and enhancements may vary by copy.
"Oprah's 2016 Selection Book Club" -- on jacket
Summary:
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. 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.
Audience:
890L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn933420484
Availability:
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