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DESCRIPTION : Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their escape. Matters do not go as planned – Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her – but they manage to find a station and head north. In Whitehead\’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is not a metaphor – a secret network of tracks and tunnels has been built beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar\’s first stop is South Carolina, where both find work in a city that at first seems like a haven. But the city\’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens – and Ridgeway, the relentless slave-catcher sent to find her, arrives in town. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing journey, state-by-state, seeking true freedom. Like Gulliver, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey – Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in states in the pre-Civil War era. 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. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9780708898376 BY (AUTHOR) Whitehead, Colson PUBLISHER : Little, Brown Book Group PUBLICATION DATE : August 09, 2016 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Fleet LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 155 mm x 234 mm WEIGHT : 420 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items