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The underground railroad

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2016

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Format:	Book
Author:	Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author
Title:	The underground railroad / Colson Whitehead.
Publisher, Date:	New York, New York : Doubleday, 2016 New York : Anchor Books, [2018]. ©2016
Description:	306 pages ; 25 cm 313 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:	Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans. When Caesar 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 hunted. But 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.
Subjects:	Underground Railroad -- Fiction Women slaves -- Fiction. Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction Fugitives from justice -- Fiction. Railroads -- United States -- Fiction. African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction. Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genre:	Historical fiction Alternative histories (Fiction) Fantasy fiction
Notes:	"Oprah's Book Club : 2016 selection" -- cover. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction, 2017. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2017. Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellance in Fiction, 2017. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2016.
LCCN:	2016000643
ISBN:	9780385542364 (hardcover) 9780345804327 (softcover) 9780345804327
System Availability:	69
Current Holds:	7
# Local items:	69
Control Number:	1444304
Course Reserves:	0
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