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Original Title:	The Underground Railroad
ISBN:	0385542364 (ISBN13: 9780385542364)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Caesar (The Underground Railroad), Cora Randall, Mabel Randall, Arnold Ridgeway, Martin Wells, Ethel Wells, Royal (The Underground Railroad), Homer (The Underground Railroad), Boseman (The Underground Railroad), Ajarry (The Underground Railroad), Lovey (The Underground Railroad), Molly (The Underground Railroad), Sybil (The Underground Railroad)
Setting:	Georgia(United States) South Carolina(United States) North Carolina(United States) …more Indiana(United States) Tennessee(United States) …less
Literary Awards:	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), 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), PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee (2017), The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2017)

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Hardcover | Pages: 306 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 259889 Users | 22875 Reviews

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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 the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

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Title	:	The Underground Railroad
Author	:	Colson Whitehead
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 306 pages
Published	:	August 2nd 2016 by Doubleday Books
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Audiobook. Literary Fiction. Cultural. African American. Race

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"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves," stated First Lady Michelle Obama at this year's Democratic National Convention. Her words seemed to come as a surprise to many, those who had either forgotten or had never known that black hands enslaved by white masters built the iconic edifice of our democracy.As we come to the end of an extraordinary eight years of the nation's first President of color while witnessing the continued systemic racism that pervades every corner of

Cora is a slave on a plantation in Georgia where conditions are especially rough because of the cotton industry. When she was younger her mother left her alone on the plantation and escaped, leaving Cora to fend for herself. Cora eventually becomes an outcast but when a new slave arrives on the plantation, Caesar, he approaches her and asks her to run away from him. The two set out to evade the bounty hunters and restart their lives this time as free people. I really enjoyed a lot of things

I came to this book with some resistance, regardless of it being the Pulitzer Prize winner for 2017.I've owned the physical book since last year. It kept being easier to read something else. I felt it was my duty to read this book.But wait.....Haven't I done my duty? I've read three James Baldwin books 'this' year....I've seen the movie "12 Years a Slave", and "Birth of a Nation".I've read "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, "The Kitchen House", by Kathleen Grissom, "Between The World And Me", by

i am so thankful that historical fiction is such an accessible genre. i dont think i would have learned half the stuff i know today without it. i love that it allows readers to experience history in a completely new light, while still being exposed to its significance.that being said, sometimes the execution of a story just doesnt do a particular moment in history justice. which is what i found to be the case with this book.this honestly had so much potential to be a five star read for me. i

I rarely get to read books when they are in their acute hype phase, but I decided to put an Audible credit towards critical darling Colson Whitehead's latest novel. A couple drives back and forth across the province and I'm all done with The Underground Railroad and ready to render my verdict.ALL ABOARD!The premise is pretty enticing: a reimagining of the Underground Railroad as an actual railroad underground. It's exactly the sort of spin on the slavery narrative that critics will gobble up

3.5 stars All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man. I was really looking forward to this read! I had an interesting relationship with The Intuitionist, having read it in college and not quite grasped it then came back to it later and enjoyed it more. I love everything that Colson Whitehead is about (and I hope to read Zone One soon), but this particular foray into his work turned out to be a little less than a love affair for me. The Underground Railroad starts on the

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