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Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author.

The Underground Railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead.

First Anchor books edition.

New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.

©2016

313 pages ; 21 cm

"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their 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"--Publisher's description.

"First Anchor Books edition, January 2018"--Title page verso.

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2016"--Title page verso.

National Book Award, 2016.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017.

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence for Fiction Winner, 2017.

Some Davenport copies may be shelved in Book Club section.

Underground Railroad -- Fiction.

Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- Fiction.

Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Fiction.

FICTION / Literary.

FICTION / Historical / General.

FICTION / African American / Historical.

Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction.

United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Ajarry -- Georgia -- Ridgeway -- South Carolina -- Stevens -- North Carolina -- Ethel -- Tennessee -- Caesar -- Indiana -- Mabel -- The North.

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