The underground railroad [Large Print Ed.]
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2017
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants.
Main title:
The underground railroad [Large Print Ed.] / Colson Whitehead.
Author:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-, author
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Rearsby, Leicester : WF Howes Ltd, 2017.©2016
Collation:
391 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: London: Fleet, 2016.
ISBN:
9781510057630 (pbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
298969
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Large Print | LP WHIT | Available |