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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Whitehead, Colson, 1969-     Subjects     Women slaves -- Fiction.     Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.     Slavery -- Fiction.     Underground Railroad -- Fiction.     Railroads -- Fiction.     National Book Awards.     Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.     Arthur C. Clarke Awards.     Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction.     United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Southern States -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Whitehead, Colson, 1969-       by title:      The underground rail...       by call number:      BOOK CLUB KIT WHI     Search the Web     Whitehead, Colson, 1969-     Women slaves -- Fiction.     Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.     Slavery -- Fiction.     Underground Railroad -- Fiction.     Railroads -- Fiction.     National Book Awards.     Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.     Arthur C. Clarke Awards.     Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction.     United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Southern States -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The underground railroad : a novel (book club kit - fiction) / Colson Whitehead. by Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Doubleday, [2016] Call #: BOOK CLUB KIT WHI Subjects Women slaves -- Fiction.   Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.   Slavery -- Fiction.   Underground Railroad -- Fiction.   Railroads -- Fiction.   National Book Awards.   Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.   Arthur C. Clarke Awards.   Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction.   United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Southern States -- Fiction. URL856 Click here to learn more about borrowing Book Club Kits URL856 Would you like to see what other titles we have available in Book Club Kits? Click here! URL856 Holds must be placed via our Request Form URL856 Accessible formats of this title are available through the Centre for Equitable Library Access URL856 Information kit for The Underground Railroad ISBN:  9780385542364 (hc.) Alternate title:  Book club kit : The underground railroad : a novel Bookclub kit : The underground railroad : a novel Edition:  1st ed. Description:  10 books, 306 p. ; 25 cm. Notes:  Holds can be placed via the Contact Us page on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available. Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Colson Whitehead's "The underground railroad", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 week loans. Summary:  "Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: 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. Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. 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."--From publisher. Awards:  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. Genre:  Historical fiction Alternative histories (Fiction) Magic realism (Literature) Black fiction. Book Club Kit Other authors:  HPL Readers Services Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Collection Management Adult Book Club Kit BOOK CLUB KIT WHI Adult Book Club Kit Checked out Sep 05, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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