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* Read ^ The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Colson Whitehead ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Things we were never taught in school I chose this book, frankly, because Oprah chose it for her book club. As a lower middle class white child, educated in the '60's, I was well aware of the segregated south, but I had no idea the depth of the degradation and depravity of what people of color had endured in this country. The land of the free, home of the braveunless you were a person of color. Kidnapped from your village in Africa, sold into bondageIF you had survived the arduous journey from t
| Title | : | The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (832 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385542364 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slav
The Underground Railroad is an American masterpiece, as much a searing document of a cruel history as a uniquely brilliant work of fiction."--Michael Schaub, NPR“Far and away the most anticipated literary novel of the year, The Underground Railroad marks a new triumph for Whitehead…A book that resonates with deep emotional timbre. The Underground Railroad reanimates the slave narrative, disrupts our settled sense of the past and stretches the ligaments of history right into our own eraThe canon of essential novels about America's peculiar institution just grew by one.”--Ron Charles, Washington Post. #1 NEW YORK TIMES
Things we were never taught in school I chose this book, frankly, because Oprah chose it for her book club. As a lower middle class white child, educated in the '60's, I was well aware of the segregated south, but I had no idea the depth of the degradation and depravity of what people of color had endured in this country. The land of the free, home of the braveunless you were a person of color. Kidnapped from your village in Africa, sold into bondageIF you had survived the arduous journey from the Dark Continent to the Americas. Seeing your heritage stripped from you, as sure. A Journey Without Map said A STORY THAT WILL HAUNT READERS FOR A LONG TIME!. Colson Whitehead is no stranger to many readers as he has authored several widely acclaimed books since he made his debut with The Intuitionist in 1999. His latest work, The Underground Railroad which is sharp and ingenious, follows the harrowing plight of Cora who was a young slave on the Randall estate in Georgia. Set around the year 181"A STORY THAT WILL HAUNT READERS FOR A LONG TIME!" according to A Journey Without Map. Colson Whitehead is no stranger to many readers as he has authored several widely acclaimed books since he made his debut with The Intuitionist in 1999. His latest work, The Underground Railroad which is sharp and ingenious, follows the harrowing plight of Cora who was a young slave on the Randall estate in Georgia. Set around the year 1812, Cora’s story is all the more heart-wrenching as her mother fled the cotton plantation leaving her behind, to fend for herself. What could have prompted Cora’s mother to leave her behind is. , Cora’s story is all the more heart-wrenching as her mother fled the cotton plantation leaving her behind, to fend for herself. What could have prompted Cora’s mother to leave her behind is. Stunning and gut-wrenching Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad is a work of genius. Perhaps a work of art. The author "maps" the experience of Cora and Ceasar as they flee the Randall plantation north via an actual underground railroad. Each step along in the journey is a personal revelation and evolution of time or experience in African-American history. Think Gabriel Marquez. Whitehead is that good and completely in control of a fictional narrative that both compresses and expands (for those who don't know it) the Black American's experience.In "simple" (i.e.
Colson Whitehead is the New York Times bestselling author of The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and one collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he
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