The Underground Railroad: a novel
(Large Print)
Author:
Published:
New York : Random House Large Print, [2016].
Physical Desc:
417 pages ; 24 cm
Lexile measure:
890L
Status:
Description
#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
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.
Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto!
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
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.
Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto!
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Carmichael
LARGE PRINT FICTION Whitehead, C.
Due Nov 21, 2024
Martin Luther King, Jr.
LARGE PRINT FICTION Whitehead, C.
Due Nov 12, 2024
Location
Call Number
Status
Folsom Adult
LARGE PRINT FICTION Whitehead, C.
Due Nov 22, 2024
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
More Details
Format:
Large Print
Edition:
First large print edition.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781524736309
Lexile measure:
890
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Whitehead, C. (2016). The Underground Railroad: a novel. First large print edition. New York, Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Whitehead, Colson, 1969-. 2016. The Underground Railroad: A Novel. New York, Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Whitehead, Colson, 1969-, The Underground Railroad: A Novel. New York, Random House Large Print, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad: A Novel. First large print edition. New York, Random House Large Print, 2016.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
faddaf38-ba9e-dd7b-824e-faa24b8be1ed
QR Code
Record Information
Last Sierra Extract Time | Nov 01, 2024 11:54:46 AM |
---|---|
Last File Modification Time | Nov 01, 2024 11:58:46 AM |
Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Nov 02, 2024 08:03:21 AM |
MARC Record
LEADER | 01369nam 2200361 i 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | bl2016032110 | ||
005 | 20160914070623.0 | ||
008 | 160727r20162016nyu d 000 1 eng d | ||
010 | |a bl2016032110 | ||
020 | |a 9781524736309 | ||
040 | |a NjBwBT |b eng |c NjBwBT |e rda | ||
049 | |a JRSA | ||
050 | 1 | 4 | |a PS3573.H4768 |b U53 2016d |
082 | 0 | 4 | |a 813/.54 |2 23 |
100 | 1 | |a Whitehead, Colson, |d 1969- |e author. | |
245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Underground Railroad : |b a novel / |c Colson Whitehead. |
250 | |a First large print edition. | ||
264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Random House Large Print, |c [2016] | |
300 | |a 417 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
336 | |a text |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a unmediated |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a volume |2 rdacarrier | ||
650 | 0 | |a Underground Railroad |v Fiction. | |
650 | 0 | |a Fugitive slaves |z United States |v Fiction. | |
650 | 0 | |a Large type books. | |
651 | 0 | |a United States |x History |y 19th century |v Fiction. | |
655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction. |2 gsafd | |
907 | |a .b24379220 | ||
932 | |f LARGE PRINT |a FICTION Whitehead, C. | ||
945 | |y .i74636947 |i 33029101967248 |l kinag |s - |k 11-12-24 |u 37 |x 3 |w 1 |v 17 |t 0 |z 09-20-16 |o - | ||
945 | |y .i7538923x |i 36796021678264 |l fola |s - |k 11-22-24 |u 19 |x 1 |w 1 |v 1 |t 16 |z 02-16-17 |o l |f LARGE PRINT |a FICTION Whitehead, C. | ||
945 | |y .i85964517 |i 33029101967263 |l carag |s - |k 11-21-24 |u 8 |x 3 |w 2 |v 5 |t 16 |z 11-17-21 |o - | ||
998 | |e - |d l |f eng |a car |a fol |a kin |