The underground railroad [text (large print)] / Colson Whitehead.

Title:

ISBN:

9781524736309

Personal Author:

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

Publication Information:

[New York] : Random House Large Print, [2016]

Physical Description:

417 pages (large print) ; 24 cm

General Note:

"Oprah's Book Club : 2016 selection" -- cover.

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.

Geographic Term:

United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

United States -- Race relations -- Fiction.

Southern States -- 19th century -- Fiction

Subject Term:

Underground Railroad -- Fiction

Fugitive slaves--United States -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- Fiction.

Enslaved persons--United States -- Fiction.

Black people--United States -- Social conditions -- Fiction

Genre:

National Book Awards