The Resource The underground railroad [Book Club kit], Colson Whitehead
The underground railroad [Book Club kit], Colson Whitehead
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The item The underground railroad [Book Club kit], Colson Whitehead represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item The underground railroad [Book Club kit], Colson Whitehead represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned - Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her - but they manage to find a station and head north. In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor - a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens - and Ridgeway, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her, arrives in town. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey, state-by-state, seeking true freedom. Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey - Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 366 pages
- Note
- Currently only 9 copies of this title available in the Book club Kit. 20/12/2019
- Contents
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- Ajarry
- Georgia
- Ridgeway
- South Carolina
- Stevens
- North Carolina
- Ethel
- Tennessee
- Caesar
- Indiana
- Mabel
- The North
- Isbn
- 9780708898406
- Label
- The underground railroad [Book Club kit]
- Title
- The underground railroad [Book Club kit]
- Statement of responsibility
- Colson Whitehead
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned - Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her - but they manage to find a station and head north. In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor - a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens - and Ridgeway, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her, arrives in town. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey, state-by-state, seeking true freedom. Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey - Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. 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
- Awards note
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- National Book Award, Winner 2016.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Winner 2017.
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Whitehead, Colson
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Underground Railroad
- Fugitive slaves
- United States
- Label
- The underground railroad [Book Club kit], Colson Whitehead
- Note
- Currently only 9 copies of this title available in the Book club Kit. 20/12/2019
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Ajarry -- Georgia -- Ridgeway -- South Carolina -- Stevens -- North Carolina -- Ethel -- Tennessee -- Caesar -- Indiana -- Mabel -- The North
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 366 pages
- Governing access note
- Kits available to Book Club administrators. Please contact your local Branch Library if you are interested in registering
- Isbn
- 9780708898406
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Publisher number
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- 9780708898406BK
- 0708898408BK
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- Label
- The underground railroad [Book Club kit], Colson Whitehead
- Note
- Currently only 9 copies of this title available in the Book club Kit. 20/12/2019
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Ajarry -- Georgia -- Ridgeway -- South Carolina -- Stevens -- North Carolina -- Ethel -- Tennessee -- Caesar -- Indiana -- Mabel -- The North
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 366 pages
- Governing access note
- Kits available to Book Club administrators. Please contact your local Branch Library if you are interested in registering
- Isbn
- 9780708898406
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Publisher number
-
- 9780708898406BK
- 0708898408BK
- Specific material designation
- regular print
Subject
- Historical fiction
- Underground Railroad -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction
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- trueAfrican American Fiction
- trueAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
- trueArthur C. Clarke Award
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2016
- trueGoodreads Choice Awards: 2016
- trueHurston/Wright Legacy Awards: Fiction
- trueIndies' Choice Book Awards: Adult Fiction
- trueLibrary Journal Top Ten
- trueLiterary Fiction
- trueNational Book Awards: Fiction
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2016
- truePulitzer Prize: Fiction
- trueRecommended by Jessica Lin
- trueStylistically Complex
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