The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner): A Novel
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One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.
As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
Details
- Author
- Colson Whitehead
- Language
- English
- Format
- Paperback
- Published
- Jan 30, 2018
- Pages
- 336
- Reading Level
- Adult
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- ISBN-13
- 9780345804327
- ISBN-10
- 0345804325
- Carton quantity
- 24 copies
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) for groups: pricing
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| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $14.00 | 30% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $13.60 | 32% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $13.20 | 34% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $12.80 | 36% off list |
| 1,000+ | $12.40 | 38% off list |
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