The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club)
β Scribed by Colson Whitehead
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 240 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0385537042
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β¦ 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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