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Harrowing escape odyssey; antebellum South reimagined.

If the struggle for freedom and the raw complexity of American history pull at your heartstrings, "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead will not disappoint. It's not just another historical novel; it's an imaginative leap into the harsh realities of slavery and a young woman's relentless pursuit of liberty. This thought-provoking narrative, laced with magical realism, offers not only a window into the past but also a mirror reflecting the ongoing conversations about race and equality.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017)
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017)
  • National Book Award for Fiction (2016)
  • Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2017)
  • Arthur C. Clarke Award (2017)
  • John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2017)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction (2017)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2017)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2017)
  • Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction (2016)
  • NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee (2017)
  • The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Underground Railroad: A Novel

Regular price $20.90
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$18.81 Thryft Club Member Price
ISBN: 9780385542364
Authors: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Doubleday
Date of Publication: 2016-08-02
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: World War II, Race
Goodreads rating: 4.06
(rated by 396862 readers)

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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's 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. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from
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Harrowing escape odyssey; antebellum South reimagined.

If the struggle for freedom and the raw complexity of American history pull at your heartstrings, "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead will not disappoint. It's not just another historical novel; it's an imaginative leap into the harsh realities of slavery and a young woman's relentless pursuit of liberty. This thought-provoking narrative, laced with magical realism, offers not only a window into the past but also a mirror reflecting the ongoing conversations about race and equality.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017)
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017)
  • National Book Award for Fiction (2016)
  • Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2017)
  • Arthur C. Clarke Award (2017)
  • John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2017)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction (2017)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2017)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2017)
  • Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction (2016)
  • NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2017)
  • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee (2017)
  • The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.