The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
By Colson Whitehead
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
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Summary
Summary
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of a 2016 National Book Award
Winner of the 2017 Carnegie Medal for Literature
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
An Audible Editors Top Pick of Audiobooks Now on Video
A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century
A 2016 Oprah’s Book Club Selection
A BookPage Top Pick for September 2016
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2017
Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2017
Among shortlisted titles for Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, 2017
Among longlisted titles for Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2017
Winner of National Book Award, 2016
Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 2016
Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 2017
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years
The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.
As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. His other awards include the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN Oakland Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among others. His books have been named best books of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post, Time magazine, Boston Globe, and many more. He is a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships.
Details
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Runtime: | 10.73 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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