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One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
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.
Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto!
Kindle Book
- ISBN: 9780385537049
- Release date: August 2, 2016
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780385537049
- File size: 1795 KB
- Release date: August 2, 2016
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780385537049
- File size: 4937 KB
- Release date: August 2, 2016
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Lexile® Measure:890
Text Difficulty:4-5
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
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.
Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto!
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Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Awards:Kindle Book
ISBN: 9780385537049
Release date: August 2, 2016
OverDrive Read
ISBN: 9780385537049
File size: 1795 KB
Release date: August 2, 2016
EPUB ebook
ISBN: 9780385537049
File size: 4937 KB
Release date: August 2, 2016
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Creators
- Colson Whitehead - Author
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Formats
Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
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Languages
English
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Levels
Lexile® Measure: 890
Text Difficulty: 4-5
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