02722cam a2200469 i 4500 551460278 TxAuBib 20161025120000.0 160508s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781524736309 paperback 1524736309 paperback (OCoLC)949211766 BTCTA eng rda BTCTA BDX TEFBT OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO OJ4 OCLCO HSA OCL OCLCO YDX ANK OCLCO INR OCL OCLCO NDS OCLCO KRX TxAuBib rda Whitehead, Colson, 1969- The Underground Railroad [large print] : A novel / Colson Whitehead. First large print edition; regular sized paperback. [New York : Random House Large Print, [2016] ©2016. 417 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Oprah's Book Club : 2016 selection"--Cover. 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. Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey -- hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. 20161025. 1800-1899. Underground Railroad Fiction. Underground Railroad. Fugitive slaves United States Fiction. Fugitive slaves. Fugitives from justice Fiction. African Americans Social conditions History Fiction. Large type books. Historical fiction. Fiction. History. United States History 19th century Fiction. United States Race relations Fiction. United States. Southern States History 19th century Fiction. Alternative histories (Fiction.)