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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly 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.     Arthur C. Clarke Awards.     Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction.     Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in 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:      COMPACT DISC FICTION WHI     Search the Web     Whitehead, Colson, 1969-     Women slaves -- Fiction.     Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.     Slavery -- Fiction.     Underground Railroad -- Fiction.     Railroads -- Fiction.     National Book Awards.     Arthur C. Clarke Awards.     Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction.     Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.     United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Southern States -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The underground railroad [sound recording] : a novel / Colson Whitehead. by Whitehead, Colson, 1969- Random House Audio, p2016. Call #: COMPACT DISC FICTION WHI Subjects Women slaves -- Fiction.   Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.   Slavery -- Fiction.   Underground Railroad -- Fiction.   Railroads -- Fiction.   National Book Awards.   Arthur C. Clarke Awards.   Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction.   Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.   United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Southern States -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781524736255 Format:  [sound recording] : Edition:  Unabridged. Description:  9 CDs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm. Production:  Directed by Erin Spencer. Performers:  Read by Bahni Turpin. 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 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2017. Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellance in Fiction, 2017. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction, 2017. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2016. Genre:  Historical fiction Alternative histories (Fiction) Magic realism (Literature) Black fiction. Adult books on CD. Other authors:  Turpin, Bahni. Random House Audio Publishing. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Fiction on CD COMPACT DISC FICTION WHI Adult Compact Discs Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction on CD COMPACT DISC FICTION WHI Adult Compact Discs Checked in Add Copy to MyList J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Fiction on CD COMPACT DISC FICTION WHI Adult Compact Discs Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Fiction on CD COMPACT DISC FICTION WHI Adult Compact Discs Checked in Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Fiction on CD COMPACT DISC FICTION WHI Adult Compact Discs Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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