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. Lif
MAY BOOK CLUB. 2018, The underground railroad: a novel
โ Scribed by Colson Whitehead
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 581 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0385537042
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โฆ Synopsis
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 huntedition. 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.
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