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The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad( )
Author: Whitehead, Colson
ISBN:978-0-7088-9839-0
Publication Date:Aug 2016
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint:Orbit Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $39.99
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / African American & Black / Historical
Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16 x 23.7 x 3 cm
Book Weight:0.55 Kilograms
Author Biography
Whitehead, Colson (Author)
Colson Whitehead was born on November 6, 1969. He graduated from Harvard College and worked at the Village Voice writing reviews of television, books, and music.

His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the Quality Paperback Book Club's New Voices Award. His other books include The Colossus of New York, Sag Harbor, and Zone One. He won the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for John Henry Days, the PEN/Oakland Award for Apex Hides the Hurt, and the National Book Award for fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Underground Railroad.

His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper's and Granta. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

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